Well, you're not the first one to complain about it: http://social-problems-of-lisp.blogspot.com/ http://social-problems-of-lisp.blogspot.com/ But personally,

Well, you're not the first one to complain about it: http://social-problems-of-lisp.blogspot.com/ http://social-problems-of-lisp.blogspot.com/ But personally, I've found that if you post a question to the c.l.l. newsgroup about how to do something specific, you'll get good replies. It's the more theoretical and philosophical type of posts which wind up attracting the trolls en masse.