It appears my post wasn't useless.

Well, I don't know if most people would react to it the way I have-- if that's what you mean. But at least I got the wake-up call. It's just not quite as pleasant waking up to a fire alarm as it is waking up to an alarm clock.

I appreciated your initial comments and critique, though I didn't much appreciate being called names. I'm sorry I provoked that kind of anger. Please excuse my mistake --that goes for everyone. But for good or bad, I'm not sorry for living :o|

If it's any consolation, perhaps its something to consider that the odds of someone wanting to help rather than hinder are much greater than what may have been suspected. When taking into account that it requires a good-heart and a strong belief in selfless service to others for the benefit of all; a good deal of time and effort outside of life's other duties (like family, paying work); and a noteworthy resolve to go through the process of making a contribution to the CPAN and to the world (_wow_), I think the chances are in our favor that the contributor truly wants to help, to better, to serve, to do good.

I would like to think that this is true, and my reason for so reasoning: why would I (just one among many) submit to such railing rebuke as that which I've encountered and still want whole-heartedly to do what I set out to do in the first place, to help out at substatial personal sacrifice so people everywhere are a little more happy to use Perl;? If I didn't care about CPAN, Perl, and people, I wouldn't care to persist.

I think it takes more than a fool to do that, I think it takes at least an ignoramous or a chump or something.

I'll read the documentation to find out how and when the module can be useful. Until then, I'm not able to say anything more about it than I did in my original post in this thread.

Thanks for taking the time to do that Juerd. I appreciate it a lot.

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