Your complaint about registration on DeveloperWorks could be viewed by the AnonyMonk(s) posting these informational articles in the same way. "Why should I have to register on your site just to let you know about cool information?" It cuts both ways.

Furthermore, membership in the PM club has nothing to do with how many topics you post on. There are monks, both registered and not, who only post on very specific topics. In fact, they're known for only posting on those topics. Elian, for example, tends to confine his posts specifically to the design of Perl6. I don't think he has ever written a CGI script. Does that make him less of a monk?

Additionally, tilly (one of the more respected monks) was forced to post anonymously for over a year, due to outside considerations. Yet, when he posted as AnonyMonk, did that make his posts any less valuable?

Finally, it is targeted advertising. So what?!? How does this differ from Abigail-II's posts advertising the latest release of Perl 5.8.x? Or posts advertising various modules by "reviewing" them?

Grid computing using Perl is an amazing advancement of the current knowledgebase. Yes, people have been doing it for a while. But, to have, publicly and freely accessible, a blueprint of how to do it - that's gold! I personally couldn't care less where it came from, who wrote it, how I found out about it, or even if it has a ton of spelling and gramatical errors (which it does). The knowledge is the important part.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Build a grid with Perl, Part 1 by dragonchild
in thread Build a grid with Perl, Part 1 by Anonymous Monk

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