Thanks for the nec/romancing! ;)

> As a serious code-golfer for many years I watched in dismay as ... the perl fwp and golf mailing lists died

Hey ... you are free to post new challenges under meditations!

(even old ones if you asked me ;-)

> Possible Necropost Improvements

Maybe tangential, but those resurrections happen because of people following search results.

And unfortunately do search engines lead me quite often to alternative sites or unfortunate views. (I'll add examples later)

If robots-settings can't be adjusted to ignore those, it might be good to search for alternatives (Brainstorm: like a JS message offering a redirection, depending on referrer)

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re: Necroposting Considered Beneficial by LanX
in thread Necroposting Considered Beneficial by eyepopslikeamosquito

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