Gavino (bootiack@yahoo.com)

OK, the other half of the c.l.l problem is the trolls who somehow manage to invoke responses to their inane postings. Gavino is the latest example. I can't see that *any* of his postings deserve a reply, but yet he can successfully bait c.l.l into creating long meandering theads. Sure, these boring threads are easy to recognize and ignore, but I don't understand why anyone would bother to reply at all. If squint, I can sort of see why someone might be suckered into responding to a sophisticated troll like Jon Harrop He's the guy who is continually trying to convert everyone to O'Caml. At least he manages to keep his posts grammatically correct and coherent, even if off-topic and annoying. He pretends that there *could* be a theoretical use for Lisp, but he hasn't seen it yet. "Lisp, the Higgs boson of the programming world". Gavino, on the other hand, fails to live up to this standard.