Comment 0 for bug 589811

Since the Lucid release I've noticed a increasing number of people emailing me directly for support with their X issues or with basic questions like how to report bugs. They indicate they're doing this because they saw my email address in the Xorg.0.log.

I don't really have the time to respond individually to all these support requests. Sometimes I just delete the emails without giving any response, but I feel bad doing so. Other times I give a short reply, but invariably the user wishes to engage in a lengthy conversation to get answers to a lot of basic questions (how do I attach files? how do I downgrade a package? how do I file a bug report? etc.)

In the past, the Xorg.0.log just showed "buildd@" as the contact address. Debian modified this to use the email address from the xorg-server uploader, and that's why my email address is being shown.