Well, #perl isn't a help desk, which is most peoples misconception. It is a community of people who like Perl. In fact, if you simply lurk there you could learn a ton from the various conversations that happen (when they actually pertain to Perl).

It isn't a matter of a questions being asked 1000 times, but the fact that many questions are answered in the documentation that comes with Perl. You speak as though I have answered a bunch of (or any) questions with RTFM, instead of nicely pointing people to the docs (which I will not link to) or showing them a solution. So, stop appearing to be asking me to stop doing something I am not. Enough people with clue don't care for this site already and you shouldn't preech to nice, helpful, clueful folks.

Cheers,
KM

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