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

[Andrey Frolkin]

Hello,

Sad news indeed.

It’s true that “there has been very little traffic in recent years.”
Unfortunately, classical retroanalysis is almost history now. A total of
429 entries were received for Section H of FIDE Album 2022-2024, of which
only 50 actually belong to deductive retroanalysis based on OTB (standard
chess) rules. Not counting my own entries, only 9 retros out of 413 (2.2%)
involve non-elementary retro reasoning.

Nevertheless, it would be great if “the last dinosaurs of the fading
retroanalytical genre” could still have a platform for discussing issues of
common interest at least a couple of times a year.

Yours,

Andrey

пн, 6 окт. 2025 г. в 17:45, Otto Janko <otto at aojanko.de>:

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