Woow. It had been a long time since I had not had the opportunity of discovering such a un-friendly mailing list... (libc-alpha for those who care). The webpage which points to the 4 glibc mailing lists does not describe what they cover so the I picked one based on its name and sent two (err, no, three) emails on different things I was trying to figure out while using/building glibc. I must say that the answers I did get were rather unfriendly and unhelpful. Reading my emails again, I fail to see anything really horribly rude in them to deserve such answers (other than not posting my question on a more apropriate forum to which no one could point me). I feel empathy with the newcomers to linux development who face such "HaXXor eleeete" reactions on some mailing lists.

Weird.