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Here's an idea that I havn't heard before -- make every CPAN version-stripped distribution automagicly also be a mailing list, to which the author is automaticly subscribed. (IOW, by uploading a Acme-SAndM-6.66.tar.gz, a Acme-SAndM@lists.cpan.org ML is created, and you are subscribed.) Then, there's automaticly a ML for each module, without the module author having to go to the trouble of begging for one, and Ask (or somebody) setting one up. Users now know where to turn for help. Even better, allow authors to change where that alias goes -- for example, if they want to upload a DateTime-Myan-12.13.tar.gz, but have support requests go to the main datetime list, then they can do that.

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