Totally agree. I was surprised by this response:

I think that both the question ("What version of Perl...") and your reply would've been better off as private /msg's, perhaps with a reply noting the version of Perl that had the problem and why the problem was, after it'd all been figured out.

Who cares if knowing which version of Perl was used would help other people solve the problem, don't want to waste those precious nodes! :P