Lisp Hug

is the mailing list for all LispWorks users. You are invited to help each other, exchange ideas and code, and tell us how you want LispWorks and its associated products to evolve. We post news about releases and patch bundles to this list.

is a subscriber-only list. Only subscribers may post.

How to... 

send email to the list members

Send email to to send an email to the list members.

subscribe

Send email to with the text subscribe lisp-hug on a new line in the body of the message. Answer the confirmation message that follows.

unsubscribe

Send email to with the text unsubscribe lisp-hug on a new line in the body of the message.

subscribe from a different address

Send email to with the text subscribe lisp-hug foo@bar.baz on a new line in the body of the message. The different address must answer the confirmation message that follows.

unsubscribe from a different address

Send email to with the text unsubscribe lisp-hug foo@bar.baz on a new line in the body of the message. The different address must answer the confirmation message that follows.

Troubleshooting

message or posting does not appear on the list

If you want to post (by any means, including Gmane) remember that you need to be subscribed to lisp-hug. Also, your message should be no larger than 200000 bytes.

failed to subscribe

Messages received by are interpreted as plain text. Each command needs to be on a single line, or on multiple lines with all but the last line ending with a backslash (\) character.
Therefore mailers which do automatic line-wrapping, or send mail in HTML, Quoted Printable or other encodings, may produce messages which will be rejected by the list server. Switch off line wrapping and specify plain text encoding when emailing commands to the list server.

want to post but not receive email

If you want to post but not receive list email (for instance, because you read lisp-hug solely via Gmane) then please ask who will modify your subscription.

Dos and don'ts

• Do please keep to the subject.
• Don't post messages which are about Common Lisp in general (as opposed to the LispWorks implementation of Common Lisp). These belong on comp.lang.lisp.
• Do include complete example source code, if appropriate, to illustrate your point.
• Don't post messages larger than 200000 bytes, including attachments. Some subscribers have only slow connections so the list server is configured to reject large messages.
• Do post a URL if you want readers to be able to access a large amount of data such as an image
• Do feel free to post adverts for jobs using LispWorks. But please do this no more than once for each vacancy and be sure to request private replies only.

No-one answered my question. Hmmph!

Contributions to lisp-hug are voluntary and it may simply be that people don't have time to respond.

If your posting...

• is easy to read, and
• clearly and succinctly explains the issue, and
• contains examples as appropriate

then it is more likely to get a response.

When you really need an answer or a bug fix, contact Lisp Support.

Why "hug"?

"hug" stands for "Harlequin User Group". Harlequin was the original developer of LispWorks.

"hug" also reflects the character of this list - friendly and mutually supportive - so we rather like the name.