<story><title>Don’t email me</title><url>http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/10/08/dont-email-me/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>casca</author><text>For some context, Daniel Stenberg is the lead developer in the widely used curl and libcurl OSS. He is extremely responsive on the mailing lists and will often provide detailed answers to difficult questions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Don’t email me</title><url>http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/10/08/dont-email-me/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaggederest</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s funny, because from his point of view mailing lists are awesome.&lt;p&gt;But from the point of view of everyone else they&amp;#x27;re pretty terrible - it&amp;#x27;s extremely rare I&amp;#x27;ve had mailing lists deliver value.&lt;p&gt;For most open source projects, the correct way has been to find the backchannel - the mailing list is only a source of frustration and bikesheds. You must either contact maintainers personally or find an IRC or other real time method.</text></comment>