From: Eli-the-Bearded Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [comp.lang.perl.misc] comp.lang.perl doesn't exist Date: 24 Sep 1997 22:36:01 -0700 Subject: comp.lang.perl doesn't exist (was: Re: Memory leak?) From: Tom Phoenix Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc Steve Wolfe wrote: > > Also to the original poster there is no such group as comp.lang.perl > > anymore. > > I just read 13 messages in it today - your news feed must not carry > it. Talk to your admin, and they can probably add it for you, if the > feed that they get carries it. They shouldn't. It's defunct. It's an ex-newsgroup. It's deceased. comp.lang.perl has joined the spool celestial. It's gone to meet its rmgroup-er. It's been zeroed, and there's no backup. Kibo doesn't read it anymore. It's been left uncapped and the fizz is all gone. comp.lang.perl has been erased from the global history file. It's sleeping with the fishes. It's been paved over, lines have been painted, and eighty-eight cars are parked on it today. It's a stiff, and the autopsy reported foul play. The buzzer has sounded and the fans have gone home. The staff of Zot has spoken. comp.lang.perl is floating belly-up. The core has been dumped, Captain, and it exploded two kilometers off the starboard hull. I found it in the back of the fridge and threw it out two weeks ago. A comet crashlanded 65 million years ago and wiped out comp.lang.perl. The manufacturer has recalled it. With one last bright flash, the filament snapped and the bulb went out. Elvis has left the building. If your news administrator still carries comp.lang.perl, please let him or her know that that newsgroup has not existed since 1995. If you have such an outdated newsgroup listing, you are probably missing out on many other valid newsgroups as well. You'll be doing yourself and many others a favor to use only comp.lang.perl.misc (and other valid Perl newsgroups) instead.