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I'm not sure which dates you are referring to, but I don't think you need AI to produce such an incoherent web page.

There is a connected github repo with projects dating back for years and the name in the sources are matching Paul T.*

Wayback has copies of the homepage dating back till 2003.

The "Perl5 approaching EOL"-page was first captured 24 Jan 2022.

So what do you want to delete?

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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Re^5: new perl distribution
by NERDVANA (Priest) on Apr 23, 2025 at 04:41 UTC
    Well the page is almost empty now, so maybe this was written by a real person afterall. I got suspicious and didn't look at the page in a browser, but using 'less' I saw post timestamps that alternated between various times in 2022, 2023, and 2024 in no particular order, so I assumed it had to be AI attempting to generate a blog and having the usual failing at math. I also saw lots of references to "new distribution of perl 5 perl 4" (marked up like that) and I can't see why any sane person would care about perl 4 when 5 was better in every way and backward compatible enough to make perl4 scripts an easy upgrade. On the assumption that it was some sort of spam, I was suggesting deleting the post.

    If this was an honest attempt to connect with the perl community, then I guess I owe paulT an apology.

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