According to the original charter, one may discuss anything Perl:
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Discussion of Larry Wall's Perl system.
And the .misc charter:
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comp.lang.perl.misc is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its
vote for creation by 328:48 as reported in news.announce.newgroups
on 1 May 1995.This group supersedes comp.lang.perl, which will be
removed on 8 Aug 1995.
For your newsgroups file:
comp.lang.perl.misc The Perl language in general.
The charter, culled from the call for votes:
Existing traffic in comp.lang.perl will migrate to
comp.lang.perl.misc, which will remain an unmoderated newsgroup for
discussion of issues of all sorts relating to perl.
I've never seen an official charter for this group, but it certainly
isn't a help desk. It's for general discussion of Perl. That might be
questions, answers, essays, or whatever else people decide to post.
Please explain, who actually decides that it isn't a help? I never saw
Larry Wall state that in this group. It's not in the charter, which
actually says the opposite:
Existing traffic in comp.lang.perl will migrate to
comp.lang.perl.misc, which will remain an unmoderated newsgroup for
discussion of issues of all sorts relating to perl.
"discussion of issues of all sorts relating to perl", and help questions
fall into this category.
People post the thoughtful stuff in blogs now, so you don't see much of
that in usenet anymore.
Sigh... ain't that the truth.
It's for "discussion of issues of all sorts relating to perl."
It depends on what you are trying to acheive.
No, the only requirement to post here is if it's a Perl related question.
If you're looking to learn perl, you probably want to move
over to learn.perl.org and look at its discussion lists.
If you want detailed discussions of the gory details of Perl, you might
try PerlMonks.
I would say use the lists or nntp.perl.org, this news group, and the
'Monks list.
clpm is what it is, despite what anyone tries to make it.
What I dislike it the arm-chair legislation that some people love to
impose; this notion that "this is not a help desk", for instance, is
bunk. It's not a _personal_ help desk, but in a sense, it is a public
volunteer based help desk, as people come and ask questions and often
someone answers them. I don't know how else you can describe a "help desk."
If it doesn't, there's not much chance of making it into something else.
I think the ruling populous did that a long time ago.
- Adam