Here's a possible procedure we could use to get a good start:

• Work with vroom to copy/image the database, probably to another machine.
• Drop the homenodes - unless people really want to stay in.
• Drop every thread that starts with a post whose reputation is less then zero.
• Drop every node with a reputation less than zero
• Flag every node with a reputation of 0. Then go through them fast. If you don't see Perl code, drop the node.
• Get everyone to suggest threads that are especially worth reading (a lot of people already have these on their home nodes). Move these to a separate section.
• Dump what's left to a latex (SGML, whatever takes your fancy) file, each section (snippits, code, craft, questions&answers, discussion, etc.) a chapter, threads are subsections.
• Get everyone on perlmonks to take a look
• Edit the database image appropriately
• Repeat until we are all sick of it

That should produce something good enough to distribute as a PDF.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.