ma**********@users.sourceforge.net (MadHatter) wrote in message news:<92**************************@posting.google. com>...
no****@mail.com wrote in message news:<4d**************************@posting.google. com>... This newsgroup does not exist (see FAQ). Please do not start threads here.
if it does not exist how can I post to it?
You seem to have overlooked his parenthetical comment.
I'm asking a perl question...
He didn't say you weren't. More people will read your question if you
post in comp.lang.perl.misc, which is the valid newsgroup for perl
questions.
http://dbforums.com/arch/96/2003/1/649376
Yes, on some sites it exists, but it is not a "standard" group
anymore, so
it does not exist on many news servers.
Messages sent to comp.lang.perl are not seen by nearly as many people
as
the suggested groups, and if other people who do not see that group
try to
respond (i.e. if they see it because it's cross posted to a visible
group)
then their response may not arrive at all on any groups because the
error
(from their server's point of view) will prevent the message being
posted.
comp.lang.perl is effectively a private group, just like the ones you
may
have set up at work, or like the local groups set up on a freenet like
this one.
