Main general Perl mailing list

[Dave Hodgkinson]

...or the IRC channels for the thing you're having problems with.


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Mailing lists kind of suck for most question/answer sequences; what
> they are good at is discussion (witness this thread).
>
> For general perl questions,
> http://perlmonks.org/?node=Seekers+of+Perl+Wisdom or stackoverflow.
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Tom Hukins <tom at eborcom.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:08:28AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:52 AM, gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > "What is the main general Perl mailing list, ie. most active for
> general
> >> > Perl questions? lists.perl.org has over 200 entries."
> >> >
> >> That's it? This is purely a surveying activity? Or did you want to ask
> this
> >> hypothetical "general" list a question, too?
> >
> > In case this adverserial conversation turns unpleasant, I think Chris
> > is pointing out that if you explain why you're asking a question we
> > can provide more helpful answers.
> >
> > You've already received the correct answer "there isn't one" but if
> > you tell us what you would do with such a list if one existed, we
> > might be able to point you at other helpful things.
> >
> > Tom
>