Well, it's just my impression but I think that for such a small reply, a /msg would've been more appropriate. I don't think that it's really necessary to take up an entire node for something as small as that. You probably should've included the version of Perl you were running in the orignal reply when you reported the bug.

I think that both the question ("What version of Perl...") and your reply would've been better off as private /msg's, perhaps with a reply noting the version of Perl that had the problem and why the problem was, after it'd all been figured out.

Then again, I don't really think it was a big enough deal to warrant a -- either... But I guess someone did. :-(

Just my thoughts. HTH.

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