The perl.org archives only seem to go back through late August 1999. Would it be possible to set up a perl.perl5.porters.old newsgroup and feed in all the older archives from xray?
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 11:04:52AM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:32:44 +0100, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote: > >On 2004-07-14, at 16:08:53 -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > >> The original discussion around this can be found with something > >> like: > >> > >> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=PL_protect+default_protect > >> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=hook+to+allow+perl+to+use+C%2B%2B+try > > > >I couldn't find anything useful except for this thread with the > >above two links... :-/ > > Looks like the Google index has gotten worse. The significant > threads are probably the ones that start here (be sure to follow > the whole forest of threads via the "followups" links if you > want to see everything): > > Joshua's original patches (which weren't applied) and discussion: > > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-02/msg01396.html > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-02/msg01489.html > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-02/msg01491.html > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-02/msg01608.html > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-02/msg02144.html > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-02/msg02998.html > > Chip's reworked patch and discussion: > > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-03/msg00520.html
