Its a cumulative effect, the individual e-mails can be laughed off, but you are spending the energy to hit delete. Its e-mail without a spam filter of any sort. Its not the first e-mail that will get you, its the thousandth. No one survives being told they suck thousands of times unless they build a hell of a attitude and we get projects that are "mean to newbies". A lot of legitimate newbe questions are indistinguishable from the opening volley of a troll.