Well my idea is mostly a response to what I've seen here and once before on Usenet. People walking in and saying "Well how do you know that module is any good? I know _my_ CGI stuff does what I want..." Or they say, "For all you know it might have a `rm -rf` in it some where...."

I really just wanted to mark down the modules we all generally agree are above suspicion and put them some place fairly easy to link to. That way the next time some one asks why we all trust CGI you can send em to a page that lists 8 of us that have dug through it and asked Lincoln questions about it in person.

The last thing I want to do is present these bozos with a list of excuses why not to use modules when they want my help rewriting ReadParse to handle multiple selects.

In the end, any form of certification just consists of a bunch of people who say that a module is worthwhile. You then must consider on what grounds you trust these people.
Exactly correct. Now that they have come to us for advice, they are extending SOME trust to us so we offer them a list of the modules we trust.

I see presenting a list of the best that the perl community has to offer as a positive step. I see building a list of the bad ones as divisive and mean-spirited. In no way did I wish to be associated with that. I'd rather we stay at no lists at all than have an official "icky" list floating around.

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