Re: CPAN authors, clean up your directories

So where do regular, run-of-the-mill perl folks like myself find out about this BackPAN? Now that I've heard of it I can google for it but the results are limited. It's not clear from the Google results that BackPAN is even a thing to find. It's not mentioned in the CPAN FAQ or really anywhere I'd ever think to look. So what's the deal? Is this the occult perl user's archive or what?

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Re: Re: CPAN authors, clean up your directories by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Oct 14, 2002 at 13:56 UTC
I think that BackPAN is very new and it hasn't been officially announced yet. I saw some mentions of it in Use Perl journals but not elsewhere. Here is some information that I received in an email when I deleted files: `Note: To encourage deletions (and keep CPAN CDROMable), there is a project underway to maintain the complete PAUSE history on a site +of its own, most probably history.perl.org. A preliminary version is available at ftp://pause.perl.org/pub/backpan/authors/id/` [download] -- John.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: CPAN authors, clean up your directories
by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Oct 14, 2002 at 13:56 UTC

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    Note: To encourage deletions (and keep CPAN CDROMable), there is a
    project underway to maintain the complete PAUSE history on a site 
+of
    its own, most probably history.perl.org. A preliminary version is
    available at ftp://pause.perl.org/pub/backpan/authors/id/
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John.

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