To be fair, the list was regularly trolled by people posing as noobs asking innocent questions. The biggest weakness of the Common Lisp community, the eagernes

To be fair, the list was regularly trolled by people posing as noobs asking innocent questions. The biggest weakness of the Common Lisp community, the eagerness to personally solve any and every problem with Lisp code (instead of thinking, "Damn, why should I have to do this?") made cll a great place to get help if you had a clearly non-trollish question. It's too bad the trolls trained the cll regulars to react aggressively against noob questions.