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From:Andrew Savige Date:Thu Apr 28 04:38:34 2005
Subject:Re: The history of Perl Poetry
--- Elaine Ashton wrote:
> On 26 Apr, 2005, at 15:58, Andrew Savige wrote:
> > Is it that you object to the word "cabal" and want it replaced by 
> > another
> > word, such as "folks"? Please let me know which word you want me to 
> > use.
> 
> Perhaps it is the sentiment. Cults and the Catholic church have 
> cabals..well, and so does perl, but CPAN is not it. Pick a word, but 
> pick one that bears the sentiment that is occasionally but reluctantly 
> attentive. People are always complaining about some imagined secret 
> society that either doesn't do enough to punt bad modules or 
> discourages modules or resists change or has a bad web page or 
> whatever. Perhaps doing nothing and saying nothing is all it takes to 
> be a cabal. :)

For now, I changed all occurrences of "CPAN cabal" to "CPAN bigwigs".
I've already considered:

chieftains
camarilla
crew
cronies
junto
kinfolk
horde
fraternity

Suggestions welcome. :-)

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