Dear Wolfgang,
How about including some of the more general items in POD?
For example, I prefer to include the following at the start of my programs:
=head2 SYNOPSIS
PACKAGE NAME:
AUTHOR: Juan Lorenzo
DATE:
DESCRIPTION:
Version:
=head2 USE
=head3 NOTES
=head4 Examples
=head2 SYNOPSIS
=head3 SEISMIC UNIX NOTES
=head2 CHANGES and their DATES
=cut
THANKYOU!