On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:12:16PM -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
| On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Kirrily Robert wrote:
|
| Ok; I think somewhere in the PAUSE stuff on CPAN would be more
| appropiate for that. It doesn't strike me as what you would expect
| on "modules.perl.org" (that would be more like what search.cpan.org
| is). :-/
OK, fair enough.
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