For real history (and more possibility of embarrassment), you
have to go to Usenet postings. I used Google to track down
the earliest post by each of Andrew's list in a Perl-related
newsgroup. Some of the addresses have changed over the years,
so I hope I haven't misattributed posts by people who happened
to share a name:
1992-05-23: Rick Klement, comp.lang.perl, asking about hash
keys, answered by Tom Christiansen and Larry Wall
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=21.11334%40rick.com
1996-05-04: Keith C. Ivey, comp.lang.perl.misc, answering a
FAQ (probably a bad practice) about months and
localtime
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4mgdap%24dln%40news3.digex.net
1996-08-17: Prakash Kailasa, comp.lang.perl.misc, asking about
capturing output
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=32154CD2.31382AB4%40gate.net
1996-08-22: Piers Cawley, comp.lang.perl.misc, asking about raw
sockets
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4vhles%24ppl%40alpha.ftech.net
1997-01-06: Jerome Quelin, fr.comp.lang.perl, asking about
installation problems
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=5arn40%24hcf%40tempo.univ-lyon1.fr
1997-12-02: Ton Hospel, comp.lang.perl.misc, posting a program
for reading files backward
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=65vvl5%24jjg%241%40news2.xs4all.nl
1997-12-04: Ronald Kimball, perl.porters-gw, reporting a bug in
the debugger
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=199712042222.RAA17691%40gabby.vgi.com
1998-04-28: Ala Qumsieh, comp.lang.perl.misc, asking about Perl
editors
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=35461518.75043C21%40matrox.com
1999-05-21: Yanick Champoux, comp.lang.perl.misc, helping
someone with while loops, and sporting a netiquette-
defyingly ostentatious sig
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=3745C6E9.8D67AD9B%40newbridge.com
(not retrievable without the hl=en for some reason)
1999-06-29: Eugene van der Pijll, comp.lang.perl.misc,
discussing the plural of "virus" with Tom C
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pijll.930652906%40ruunat.phys.uu.nl
1999-07-26: Julien Quint, fr.comp.lang.perl, pointing someone
toward the LWP documentation
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=379C3231.28BC3451%40xrce.xerox.com
1999-11-07: BooK, fr.comp.lang.perl, refining someone's string-
trimming method
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=38257282.74354600%40news.cybercable.fr
2000-02-10: Andrew Savige, comp.lang.perl.misc, comparing
perl's speed with that of gawk and mawk
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=87tflu%24rje%241%40merki.connect.com.au
2000-03-30: Stephen Turner, de.comp.lang.perl.cgi, answering
someone's question about sorting log files (there's
a 1995 post by a Stephen Turner from Redmond
Technology Group, but I don't think it's our
Stephen)
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=38E375B2.2933CF80%40cam.ac.uk
2000-07-05: Amir Karger, comp.lang.perl.tk, asking about
Games::Cards::Tk
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=8lkv0g%24gq4%40fidoii.CC.Lehigh.EDU
2001-05-23: Dave Hoover, comp.lang.perl (which was long dead by
that time), helping someone read and parse a file
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=812589bb.0105220905.6091718%40posting.google.com
Not found: Alistair McGlinchy
--
Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Washington, DC
