USENET called, they want their attitude back!

If I'm not mistaken, Perlmonks is a site about Perl. It's not comp.perl.language.only it's Perlmonks. This would lead me to believe all issues about Perl are welcome here. CPAN is definately related to Perl, in fact, it is the very heart of Perl, so why shouldn't it be discussed here?

Nobody claimed perlmonks controls CPAN, the module list, or is the only user of CPAN. However, This doesn't mean we can't discuss issues related to CPAN here. Posting module RFCs or questions about namespaces here can only help CPAN. It serves as an extra source of insight and a filter to point out potential problems before bothering the CPAN people with them.

You should have just pointed out that following the discussion here, jeffa should post to the CPAN list as well. Not bothered with the "perlmonks don't own us" speech. If you have something against this site, kindly check it at the door. Unnecessary stifling of constructive discussion is of little use.

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In reply to Re: Re: RFC: New rootlevel CPAN namespace: XHTML by Anonymous Monk
in thread RFC: New rootlevel CPAN namespace: XHTML by jeffa

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