I think they all guessed his intentions by his spelling of 'Perl' and the way he posted his node. That is, finding a site that specializes in Perl, registering, copy/paste his request, and wait. He did not bother to read the instructions to the monastery.

Of course, you may be right. He may be simply asking for a crash course in Perl.

The post has a bad 'aura', if you will.