linux.conf.au, January 2003
      POLITICS: linux-kernel Mailing List

http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/Stupidity.html:

 		Being a Moron on linux-kernel
 		(or: A Lurker's Tale)

 		Gentle Reader,

 		Welcome to my humble guide to being a *Real Guru* on the linux-kernel mailing
 		list; an estimated 20,000 others are reading it as well; through digests, exploders and
 		directly.  And anyone can post.  It's the focal point of mainstream Linux
 		development.  And you don't need to know anything to contribute!

So the mailing list is sometimes unfriendly.