I hate it when projects says "join our mailing list" and it is hosted by google. Fuck it

I still don't get mailing lists. They always have that terribly font and there's everybodies headers and footers with like 1 sentence of actual message. I wish there was a book on how to understand mailing lists. I need mailing lists for dummies

You would still have a public mail address that you throw around, right? Considering that you don't use Google services they can't exactly do much with it.