spot has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Apologies for the OT, but this is a wide audience, and I'm hopeful you can help.

I'm desperately seeking Rob Brown (aka BBB on CPAN). We're in the final stages of removing all code in Fedora which is solely licensed under the old Artistic 1.0 license, and we need to talk to Rob about the possibility of relicensing IO::Multiplex (a fair amount of useful things end up depending on this, so we'd really like to avoid removing them if possible).

Googling confirms that I'm not the only person who has had problems getting a hold of him:
http://www.mail-archive.com/module-authors@perl.org/msg03436.html

CPAN shows that his last new release was in August of 2007 (http://search.cpan.org/~bbb/), but we've been emailing him since September 2007 with no response.

If anyone knows how to get a hold of Rob, please, please let me know. I've tried calling the number in the whois information for his website (roobik.com), but it doesn't seem to go anywhere useful.

Thanks in advance,

Tom Callaway, Fedora
tcallawa@redhat.com

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Re: Seeking Rob Brown (BBB at CPAN)
by hookbot (Acolyte) on Sep 12, 2008 at 22:51 UTC
    Yeah, I am Rob Brown. I am working to get IO::Multiplex to avoid runtime crashes on Windows OS. I sure I can fix the license issues too. How should it be phrased? BTW, the Net-Server issue was noted was shortly afterwards resolved by RHANDOM, who is now the current maintainer for Net::Server. PS: So sorry about bunk whois info for roobik.com. I just changed phones and forgot to update the whois. It is now repaired thanks to you. So you can call me again if you want. :-D
Re: Seeking Rob Brown (BBB at CPAN)
by Lawliet (Curate) on Sep 13, 2008 at 21:49 UTC

    No, I am Rob Brown!

    It's a joke; a spartacus reference...no need to get hostile

    I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

    chomp; # nom nom nom

Re: Seeking Rob Brown (BBB at CPAN)
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 13, 2008 at 21:15 UTC
    I am Rob Brown!