Re: BBDB v3 activity

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:19:10 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bbdb.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bob Newell <[email protected]> writes:

> Aloha everyone,
>
> It's been two years since anything has been posted to this
> list so I thought I would recognize that anniversary :)
>
> However there is an actual purpose to this posting.  I remain
> an enthusiastic BBDB v3 user, and it is vital to my email
> workflow.  Does the lack of activity on this list mean, or at
> least imply, that interest in BBDB has waned?
>
> I certainly hope not.  BBDB may be nearly feature complete
> (and adding whatever you may need on your own is always
> possible; I've done a lot of that), and relatively free of
> bugs, meaning that not much in the way of support and
> development is required.
>
> But I'd surely hate to see it slowly fade away!

I've been using it too for longer than I can clearly remember, probably
late 90s.  Mostly it just works correctly and issues are very minor
annoyances.  My guess is that there are a lot of users who are quietly
content.