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* What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
+ mentioned PerlMonks
+ reference to Google Groups
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.13 $, $Date: 2002/04/26 16:56:35 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.14 $, $Date: 2002/07/10 08:19:44 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -184,9 +184,16 @@
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Writing CGI scripts for the Web.
There is also a Usenet gateway to Perl mailing lists sponsored by perl.org at
-nntp://nntp.perl.org , or a web interface to the same lists at
-http://nntp.perl.org/group/ . Other groups are listed at
-http://lists.perl.org/ .
+nntp://nntp.perl.org , a web interface to the same lists at
+http://nntp.perl.org/group/ and these lists are also available under the
+C<perl.*> hierarchy at http://groups.google.com . Other groups are listed at
+http://lists.perl.org/ ( also known as http://lists.cpan.org/ ).
+
+A nice place to ask questions is the PerlMonks site, http://www.perlmonks.org/
+
+Note that none of the above are supposed to write your code for you:
+asking questions about particular problems or general advice is fine,
+but asking someone to write your code for free is not very cool.
=head2 Where should I post source code?
@@ -368,7 +375,7 @@
=head2 Perl in Magazines
-The first and only periodical devoted to All Things Perl,
+The first (and for a long time, only) periodical devoted to All Things Perl,
I<The Perl Journal> contains tutorials, demonstrations, case studies,
announcements, contests, and much more. I<TPJ> has columns on web
development, databases, Win32 Perl, graphical programming, regular
@@ -419,7 +426,11 @@
mailing lists. Consult the documentation that came with the module for
subscription information.
+A comprehensive list of Perl related mailing lists can be found at:
+
http://lists.cpan.org/
+
+( also visible as http://lists.perl.org/ )
=head2 Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc