Re: cvs commit: perlfaq perlfaq.pod perlfaq1.pod perlfaq2.pod perlfaq3.pod perlfaq4.pod perlfaq5.pod perlfaq8.pod
[email protected] (Philip Newton)
| Newsgroups | perl.perlfaq.workers,perl.cvs.perlfaq |
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| Organization | very little |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Apologies if this came to the wrong place; if so, please direct me to a more appropriate one. On 11 Jan 2002 02:31:20 -0000, [email protected] wrote: > 1.3 +7 -3 perlfaq/perlfaq1.pod [snip] > @@ -35,8 +35,12 @@ > In particular, the core development team (known as the Perl Porters) > are a rag-tag band of highly altruistic individuals committed to > producing better software for free than you could hope to purchase for > -money. You may snoop on pending developments via > -nntp://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/ > +money. You may snoop on pending developments via the archives at > +http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/ > +and http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/ > +or the news gateway news://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or > +its web interface at http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters , > +or read the faq at http://perlhacker.org/p5p-faq, > or you can subscribe to the mailing list by sending > [email protected] a subscription request > (an empty message with no subject is fine). By my reading of RFC 1738, news://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters should become nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters . See sections 3.6 and 3.7; the "news" scheme can only take the forms news:<newsgroup-name> and news:<message-id>, while the "nntp" scheme produces URLs of the form nntp://<host>:<port>/<newsgroup-name>/<article-number> . While the URL in perlfaq does not specify an article number but rather a newsgroup as a whole, it seems to me that only nntp: allows a server to be specified -- and indeed, nntp.perl.org speaks NNTP (rather than, say, exporting a local spool via NFS or something), and "[t]he nntp URL scheme is an alternative method of referencing news articles, useful for specifying news articles from NNTP servers". Similarly a bit later: > 1.4 +9 -3 perlfaq/perlfaq2.pod [snip] > @@ -184,7 +185,8 @@ > > There is also Usenet gateway to the mailing list used by the crack > Perl development team (perl5-porters) at > -news://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/ . > +news://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or its web interface at > +http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters . > > =head2 Where should I post source code? > Again, I suggest replacing news: with nntp: here. > @@ -518,6 +520,10 @@ > http://lists.perl.org/ > http://news.perl.org/ > http://use.perl.org/ On a different note, news.perl.org appears to redirect to use.perl.org, so can probably be deleted. I suggest the following patch: --- pod/perlfaq1.pod.orig Sat Jan 12 07:01:05 2002 +++ pod/perlfaq1.pod Fri Jan 18 07:38:13 2002 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ money. You may snoop on pending developments via the archives at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/ and http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/ -or the news gateway news://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or +or the news gateway nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or its web interface at http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters , or read the faq at http://perlhacker.org/p5p-faq, or you can subscribe to the mailing list by sending --- pod/perlfaq2.pod.orig Sat Jan 12 07:01:05 2002 +++ pod/perlfaq2.pod Fri Jan 18 07:38:22 2002 @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ There is also Usenet gateway to the mailing list used by the crack Perl development team (perl5-porters) at -news://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or its web interface at +nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or its web interface at http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters . =head2 Where should I post source code? @@ -518,7 +518,6 @@ http://bugs.perl.org/ http://history.perl.org/ http://lists.perl.org/ - http://news.perl.org/ http://use.perl.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, End of patch. Cheers, Philip (email copies are appreciated since I'm not subscribed to perlfaq-workers.)