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by harakiri 3931 days ago
I found mailing lists to be the most annoying, prehistoric and bizarre way of getting help for anything other than dying...
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They can be useful. About six or seven years ago I subscribed to a few perl ones, then I created a rule in Gmail to tag them all with a label and skip the inbox. Never heard from them again.

Now, though, if I have a perl question, my first step is just searching my email. After years of aggregating, it's got some solid answers.