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About this site

This site is a bit of Perl code using Net::NNTP to connect to the colobus server which uses the perl.org ezmlm archives as the "news spool".

Archive Policy

Updates:

2017
  Docker container (site now runs in kubernetes)
2015
  Fix, maybe, charset issues. Encoding is hard.
2009
  Fix Message-ID links (thanks Aristotle Pagaltzis)
  Require a captcha to browse cpan-testers
  Various performance improvements
2007
  RSS and Atom feeds
  Link by msgid
2006 October
  All new code! :-)
  Proper threading and navigation - finally!
  Lots of bugs fixed
2002/02/01
  If you go to a too high article number you get redirected to the
  latest articles instead of getting a 404.
2002/01/30
  Quoted text now comes in a slight gray greenish color. Different anyway.
  When finding a message by msgid the Next and Previous buttons now
  still works. (requires support of the xpath command in the news
  server; I have a patch for colobus that adds that).
  Email addresses from the headers are being slightly mangled now.  

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