Not every e-mail provider keeps archives and it's an old technology - is e-mail dying? The corporate world doesn't use bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency - is this an argument? What more advanced technologies are you referring to and which one of them is so widely accessible as to be possible to use it with telnet? Many people are not familiar with computers, I say we stop using computers then!

As far as I am aware updates are published in this thread, but only when there is something to announce. For anybody that can't wait for an official announcement, there's IRC. I bet there are ways to join IRC through tor, probably one of the web-based clients will work.