[Fedora-packaging] Etiquette for contacting a package maintainer?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 18:50 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 15:43 -0700, Timothy Selivanow wrote:
> > What is the proper etiquette for contacting a current package
> > maintainer?  I'm working on a package that uses a current package as a
> > dependency, and I have some questions that need to be asked...
> 
> Email them, and be polite? :)
> 

What??! Without a formal 6-part introduction and etiquette session,
followed by tea ceremony and ritual beating?

Crazy! in this day an age just emailing someone!

What IS the world coming to?

-sv