On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, David Landgren wrote:
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.
I've removed it from http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/.
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best regards,
Randy
