In article <cu**********@az33news01.freescale.net>, Martin Gregory
<ma************@freescale.com> wrote:
Jim Gibson wrote: Next time, please show a
complete program that demonstrates your problem, and please post to
comp.lang.perl.misc instead because this newsgroup is defunct.
Out of interest, what does being "defunct" mean? How does one know that it
is the case?
I know it is defunct because people tell me it is defunct. :)
Obviosuly people are writing to and reading this group... what
status does 'defunct' confer?
It means the Usenet protocol command 'rmgroup' was issued for this
newsgroup. This happened many years ago. However, improperly-configured
newservers (like the ones you and I are accessing) can continue to
publish and receive articles posted to comp.lang.perl.
See
http://tinyurl.com/4skts for the best description I have seen of
the status of comp.lang.perl.
To repeat: comp.lang.perl is defunct!
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