Astara (aka, Linda Walsh)

• About: I blog about Perl. Been using perl since 1989 when I came upon it as a replacement for shell scripting while working @ Sun. My largest usage then was mail filtering -- a script that lives on today and still performs it's role today (though due to changes in perl 5.8.1, it occasionally corrupted non-ascii text until recently when I discovered the source of the problem). It was then I started taking a more active role in trying to address things I saw as issues. But more about those trials maybe later. yet to suffer an breakage from compatibility, being written in perl4 -- though it did start mangling non-ascii bytes as perl defaulted to corrupting the byte-stream as default behavior in perl 5.8.1 (an

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• Commented on Mark your modules as adoptable if you don't want them
  I clicked on the above link -- first I got nothing but a form asking me what I wanted to search for -- thought maybe I had to be logged in -- then I got in: The user you specified,...

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• brian d foy commented on Mark your modules as adoptable if you don't want them

  You might be making a joke from that, but for those of your that missed it, there's a trailing . (dot) at the end of that name. Sometimes that happens with URLs in sentences. The name is ADOPTME without the dot and you'll see the proper stuff if you take the dot off the end of the URL.

• andrew-jones.com commented on Mark your modules as adoptable if you don't want them

  Here's a link so you can view the modules up for adoption without signing in:

  https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/ByMaintainer.html?Name=ADOPTME