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  - The more experienced posters 
    - know the simple stuff, therefore don't have to ask
    - know where/how to get the answers to most questions quickly
      without having to ask
    - probably read/experiment a lot
    - know how to use google effectively

  - The younger/lesser experienced folks

    - don't know the simple stuff yet
    - don't know where/how to get the answers quickly
    - haven't read (enough)
    - probably haven't experimented much
    - probably haven't googled

Also note:

  - Everyone has been a member of Group A at sometime or other
  - Everyone *will* be a member of Group A for some amount of time for
    every new community they join
  - Upward mobility is not only possible, but encouraged!
  - The time it takes to move from Group B into Group A is largely
    dependant on:
     - How closely other already attained knowledge pertains to this
       new group.
       (i.e. lots of experience with general UNIX sysadmin lends
       greatly to the knowledge required to understanding Apache and
       Samba.  Knoweldge of Windows, greatly aids configuring Samba
       even more.)

     - How quickly/often one reads/learns/experiments
     - How motivated the individual is in moving to Group A 


Footnotes:
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[1] Like the time I couldn't figure out why I had a routing problem,
    only to have pointed out by Ben that a) I configured a default
    route, and b) I didn't have anything at that address :)

[2] I work with a bunch of MIT alumni.  One of them is a
    "mathematician" because the EE/CS curriculum at MIT was "so easy
    it was boring".

[3] Of course, everyone is guilty of asking the occasional stupid
    question first without following the 7 steps above, regardless of
    whether it's due to a brain-fart, impatience, or whatever :)
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Seeya,
Paul