UPDATE: Success! ambrus sent me a private message with another email address he dug up from a 2001 message on perl5porters. I sent an email, and the author responded.
Original post:

Does anyone know of a way to contact Stuart Lory, the author of the CPAN Text::Banner module?

I am at step 4 of the PAUSE procedure for taking over a module ("Try posting in public places such as ... perlmonks.org").

I have tried to contact the author by sending emails to 3 addresses: from the AUTHOR section of the POD, the Email listed on search.cpan.org, and the generic lory@cpan.org. All 3 emails bounced immediately.

As far as I can tell, this author uploaded the module in 1999 and has never uploaded any updates to it. There are a few bugs reported on RT (the first in 2008), but the author never updated any of those reports.

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