While I was compiling some more links for the Outside Links Page today, I thought to myself:

This is a beast to load...
This is a beast to maintain ...
This is a beast to update ... 
It might be worth to have some more pages to spread this on ...
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Then I completed what I wanted to add today and tried to update - but I couldn't even add a single link. As I mentioned before: It is a beast.
So I take this as an opportunity for a change:

I think it would be worth it, having at least some categories of links in their own page, leaving Outside Links as index and perhaps containing the Binaries and misc sections.
I'm not sure though how to subdevide the rest. We clearly have two kinds of Links:

• software related links (editors,tools,browsers, etc)
• informational links (tutorials, perl persons, CGI & security etc.)

But putting all the links on just two more pages would just postpone a really good solution. Here is my suggestion:

• Outside Links
  contains an Index and links to the main Perl sites (Perl.org, Perl.com etc) as well as the Journals.
• software
  • (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - editors
  • (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - Tools
  • (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - misc software (browsers, etc)
• information
  • (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - Books
  • (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - Perl People
  • (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - tutorials (containing all tutorials but CGI)
  • (Link to a new page:) Outside Links - CGI & security (also containing tutorials on CGI)

What do other monks think - apart from the fact that this would mean work for Vroom (I am painfully aware of that)?

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