Joshua ben Jore wrote:
I'd just read of Time::Cube, a disjointed rant full of hate speech. This is the kind of content that is most deserving of deletion from CPAN. Would the responsible parties please go nuke this, please?
Ok, lot of valid arguments that I agree with more or less, so I'm going to play devil's advocate.
CPAN has worked as well as it is, and people are prompt to repeat it, because people are allowed to upload anything to it. In that light, it's remarkable that incidents such as this remain few and far between.
I recommed against deleting it, because that only add fuel to the fire. The crackpot who uploaded this drivel in the first place will be able to crow freedom of speech and it's all a communist plot, there really is a perl cabal and they're out to get me and blah blah blah.
And as we all know, 99% of modules these days are found through searches. I would recommend a much more subtle approach: ask Andreas and Randy to... oops... accidentally remove it from their indices, and therefore when people search for Time::, it won't show up.
It will still be there. We wouldn't have to admit to forcibly removing anything from the archive, it would just be... hard to stumble across.
Individuals who run their own archive mirrors may wish to (and indeed may be required to, in terms on national laws (the French have something called "incitation à la haine raciale" (haine means hate, I'm sure you can figure the rest out))) institute their own policies as to what they wish to mirror from the funet master.
I would also recommend writing your (*) opinion about the module by means of reviews on cpanratings, as well as annocpan and cpan::forum. That way a third party will understand that the module is not condoned by the general Perl community.
David * you plural, I'm not just talking about Joshua
