Sure, you'll learn the technical ins and outs of Red Hat, and you'll get your newbie questions answered, or get your expert jollies satisfied by answering newbie questions, but the real benefit in subscribing to a list like this is the Linux Haiku. Take a look:

I thought some of you might enjoy this as much as I did.

Mike

This guy wrote perl scripts to search linux documentation in search of unintentional haiku's. very cool. very geek. yeah.

Adam

From: Joel Saddler null@f...

Here are a few "found haiku" from the Linux HOWTOs. I might go in search of more when I refine my script from a simple "17-syllable sentence finder" to a better haiku detector, and add syllable counts for words that don't appear in the CMU pronouncing dictionary.

A super daemon
is bloat for those who only
want one small feature

-- Werner Hauser, Linux Laptop HOWTO

I suppose you have
to fiddle around a bit
to get this working

-- Werner Hauser, Linux Laptop HOWTO

It only takes a
user with a modem to
compromise your LAN

-- Mark Grennan, Firewall and Proxy Server HOWTO

Examples of smooth
running existing systems
are also welcome

-- Stein Gjoen, HOWTO: Multi Disk System Tuning

CD-ROMs have a
spiraling track much like an
audio record

-- Skip Rye, Optical Disk HOWTO

Rest assured that they
can determine that it's there
and will exploit it

-- Kevin Fenzi & Dave Wreski, Linux Security HOWTO