Many suggestions have come over the years that we should somehow flag abandoned modules as such. Finally I came up with the simplest possible idea:
We have already the flags S - Support Level: m - Mailing-list d - Developer u - Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.perl.modules n - None known, try comp.lang.perl.modules I think we should add a flag "0" (zero) or "-" (minus), that has the explicit meaning: abandoned, volunteers welcome to take over maintainance. What do you think? Background: we apparently have already users who redirect mail to their secret and public addresses to /dev/null. I'd like to give these people a way to abandon their modules without deleting them and without having to talk with anybody ever again. -- andreas