Frost on the Gates of Hell

All too often people have nothing but complaints and rarely take the time to say something nice in any situation much less the little backwater of the internet. I would like to enshrine the following thank you note we received today at CPAN from a guy named James in some large US government institution. I'm going to smarten it up a bit in Pagemaker, print it on good acid-free paper with the Phaser and frame it to remind us daily that not all perl people are whiny assholes.

"I was just surfing around CPAN looking at stuff, and I read your sig at the bottom of the page and chuckled happily (I too am a Pratchett fan), and then it just hit me, out of the blue. I have been using CPAN for years to find new tools, solve problems, and generally make my job easier - and I have never bothered to stop to say "thanks".

My mother would just slap me for such rudeness. As the curator of several Web sites myself (it doesn't matter which ones), I find it nice to be appreciated once in a while, just so I know someone out there actually SAW what I did, and found it useful.

So, I don't want anything from you, or have a complaint, or even need a reply of any kind. I just want to offer you and anyone else who gives of their time to make CPAN work a great big THANK YOU for providing this excellent resource, that I have found so useful on so many countless occaisions. Have a great day, and may all your dreams be of bananas. ;-)"

Thank you James for engaging the power of Thank You and making our day by dropping the temperature in hell a few degrees. :)