What is the line to be drawn? I've gotten newsgroup responses to me posting the URL of a FAQ or a module's documentation like "couldn't you just paste it here?" No, I couldn't. It's a waste of time and bandwidth. You'll learn something if you learn how to access CPAN, and the Perl docs, and everything else the Perl community has to offer. Personally, I'll show a small example, or say something brief, like "use CGI.pm, it's the standard Perl query parsing module" or "the FAQ shows how to remove duplicates from an array", etc.

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

In reply to Re: Don't just provide a module name by japhy
in thread Don't just provide a module name by gryphon

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