Sharon and I were a member of a club years ago that had the most dreadful newsletter imaginable. It was full of in-jokes on virtually every page. Given how huge the club was at the time, and that most of their membership was interstate, it was unforgivable.

And while it's an extreme example, that's what you get with a lot of fan-run things - something geared to their friends. Now that's only natural, but people are unwilling to make the extra effort to welcome the newbies, and are quick to criticise them when they don't honour the history.