comp.lang.lisp is not the same thing as "the Lisp community". Even in the heyday, the Usenet news groups represented a minority. For any language, OS or tech s

comp.lang.lisp is not the same thing as "the Lisp community". Even in the heyday, the Usenet news groups represented a minority. For any language, OS or tech stack, there were many more programmers off Usenet than on. A programming language newsgroup represents the intersection between interest in that language and interest in Usenet.