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We regularly get inquiries about the perl.org, perlmonks.org etc domains like the following:
We are interested in purchasing your domain name. If interested, please let me know what it takes to buy it.If agreeable, we can finalize the deal through escrow.com Monday.
Our typical response:
Hi $spammer,One billion USD. Non-sequential twenty dollar bills preferred, but not required.
You pay the escrow.com fees.
Thanks,- ask
p.s. no, it's not really for sale.
Today, at 4:11pm Pacific Standard Time, an era (or at least 9 years) ended. The cpan-testers mailing list, recipient of a all CPAN tests submitted for CPAN testers processing, no longer resends all of those emails to its 50+ subscribers. The last message to be distributed via email should have been #1049514. Further messages will be kept in the archive, http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers (also home to RSS and Atom feeds). Eventually, we're going to transfer to a proper database backed system that doesn't use email at all.
Several people noted that they used cpan-testers to receive notification of new uploads to CPAN. We've created the cpan-uploads mailing list to receive these notifications. Archive/RSS/Atom is at http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.uploads. You can subscribe by sending a note to cpan-uploads-subscribe at perl.org.
Dear cpan-testers recipients,
Effective Monday night, Feb 11th, 2008, after over a million test reports[1], we will no longer be supporting the delivery via email of cpan-testers test reports. With an influx of over 3000 messages a day, this was causing us to deliver almost 200,000 outbound messages, most of which nobody read.
This past Thursday and Friday, we had an email glitch affecting cpan.org and pm.org email addresses. The issue has been fixed, and mail is flowing normally once again. If you sent a message to a cpan.org or pm.org address and it hasn't gone through, or if it bounced, you may wish to send it again.
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