> ... knows that the person sending this is a person that is using the library, and so any more work they do is helping this person. Something mentioned in the

> ... knows that the person sending this is a person that is using the library, and so any more work they do is helping this person. Something mentioned in the email message is private members of an interface. If they do abandon the project, then I suppose that whoever wrote that can make them public safely since there is not a new version, it is unlikely to break compatibility with newer versions if there aren't any. So, maybe abandoning this project, does possibly help them. (This is not any kind of excuse for writing such a bad message nor a reason for continuing to maintain the project; it is just an observation.)