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

[Alexander George]

Hello, everyone.

May I suggest that ChessProblem.net can provide "a platform for discussing
issues of common interest" to retro dinosaurs?  This forum on the site:

https://www.chessproblem.net/viewforum.php?f=10

is completely dedicated to Retroanalysis.

Regards,

Alex.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM Andrey Frolkin <afretro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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