[Retros] FW: Announcing RML End-of-Life Date

[Otto Janko]

Hello,

Bad news: The Retro Meiling List service provider will shut down the RML on
January 1st, 2026.

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Over time, the free PairList mailing list program (based on GNU Mailman) has
become unreliable as most mail hosts now require strict email validation
standards (SPF, DKIM, DMARC). PairList cannot support these features,
causing messages to be delayed, marked as spam, or rejected. Because of this
declining reliability, we believe the service no longer meets our standards
and will be discontinued.

PairList has served our users well for many years. While we are sad to
retire it, we are exploring a more reliable replacement service for the
future.

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There is no "replacement service" operated by pair yet.

What to do now? Firstly, is the RML still needed? There has been very little
traffic in recent years. Please let me know what you think. If there is
significant positive feedback, I will consider alternatives to the current
RML.

However, I'll try to save all the current content of the RML and provide it
in a ZIP file for download.

Best Regards,

-- Otto Janko [mailto:otto at janko.at] [https://www.janko.at]
-- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
-- safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. [Benjamin Franklin]