The article seems to suggest that there is something unreasonable about Stephen Henson's "Before you email me..." page on his website, which is here: http://www

The article seems to suggest that there is something unreasonable about Stephen Henson's "Before you email me..." page on his website, which is here: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/contact.html http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/contact.html It turns out that the way that he "compares his responsibilities to those of Bill Gates when he managed Microsoft" is by stating: The occasional person sends this query to both mailing lists (in almost all cases only one mailing list is appropriate) and when they do not get an immediate response email the entire core and development team. Presumably this is the same kind of person that emails Bill Gates whenever they have a Windows problem. Emailing open source developers who you do not know at their personal email addresses is rarely appropriate when a public mailing list for the project exists. The tone is a little prickly but what Henson says seems reasonable to me.