This post of mine promises to be the "Worst Node of the Day" and maybe of all my posts thus far.  Nevertheless, I feel I have to say that if SysAdmin magazine has absorbed TPJ and now plans to eliminate it according to the message that cLive ;-) posted today, then we need someone to step forward and start The Perl Journal anew.  I'm almost always in agreement with you, dws, but I think I have to disagree with your approach here.  If we're not going to start our own TPJ and theperljournal.com or ientry.com wants to try, then maybe we should encourage them.  Maybe we should offer to write articles for them, or offer to give constructive comments on their articles.

Having said that, though, I'm not sure that I totally agree with my points as much as I'd like to agree with them.  Basically, I would like TPJ to make a come back.  These people at theperljournal.com certainly are off to a rough start and could have done better to have solicited articles from the Perl Monks site in advance of their first issue.  So, I don't know.  What does everyone else think--and please don't say what you think strictly by down voting my node.  Is there a way that TPJ can be revived without these theperljournal.com people, or are they as good a bet as any?

-Spenser

That's Spenser, with an "s" like the detective.