Believe me, I have tried everything. I tried to contact the original author several times, asked help at every possible forum, even at comp.lang. perl.modules, etc. This was several years ago. Finally, I gave up. I hope that if someone really needs this module, he or she will make a quick google search and find it on my page.
Something really ought to be done about unmaintained modules at CPAN. But I am not the first one saying that, and so far nothing has happened.
I hope that if someone really needs this module, he or she will make a quick google search and find it on my page.
A better solution would be for you to take over maintainership of the module on CPAN - and the link that tsee provided above has info on how to do that if you're unable to contact the original author. It's just a matter of sending an email to modules@perl.org. Once they're satisfied that the author can't be contacted, and that the module is abandoned, they'll hand maintainership over to you.