Hey Folks, we’re shutting down the Launchpad developer e-mail list.
Launchpad’s e-mail list service has become increasingly unreliable. In the past month, multiple messages have not been delivered to the lead developer team members, leading to a lack of communication. This has happened a few times over the past two years. While each time is eventually resolved, we have no control over its resolution and no visibility on when it happens.
For this reason, we are moving to a new list server. You can subscribe to the new list by e-mailing devlist+subscribe@kicad.org
As much as I dislike the company, I keep an email account there because ‘it just works’. It is exempted from most major real time blocking lists and other spam prevention measures which has gotten to be a REAL problem for email now days.
I once requested an email address for the kicad . org domain. My intention was to search the 'net for websites that still used the old KiCad domain name after the KiCad project lost control over it, and send them email requests to update those links.
I was kindly given the “paulvdh @ kicad . org” email address, but I had to sign in via some google thing, so I declined to use it. I have similar ethical objections to microsoft, apple, facebook, twitter, amazon, intel, sony and a bunch of other companies and don’t use their products.
It’s not easy to keep up any sort of morale on the internet.
Google offers reliable and maintenance-free (on our part) email delivery and mailboxes. We do not want to get involved with self-hosting mailing lists or mailboxes, and our priority is reliable email delivery (which is a very complex subject these days, and basically a full-time job for whoever is administering a mail server).
It is not reasonable in today’s world to operate an independent / “open source” email list, unfortunately. Your emails simply won’t get delivered everywhere you want them to. We don’t have anyone to take on the full-time job of fighting to keep emails delivered.
