[Coco] Retiring mailing list on January 1, 2026

[Allen Huffman]

If the GNU mail list itself toast? Ideally, we’d have a server lease with the software and could control it ourselves, as opposed to Google, Yahoo, etc. that come and go with their offerings as well.

But if the days of mail list are behind us, I’m not sure what to suggest. But free offerings with ads is not what I want to move to.
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> On Sep 24, 2025, at 1:23 PM, Juan Castro via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> There's already one functional at groups.io that has near zero traffic
> except for newsletters: https://groups.io/g/ColorComputer/
> 
> Juan Castro
> Enviado do meu Olivetti Programma 101
> http://retropolis.com.br
> 
> 
>> Em qua., 24 de set. de 2025 às 15:09, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz via Coco <
>> coco at maltedmedia.com> escreveu:
>> 
>> After all these years, this message came an hour ago from Pair Networks,
>> where I lease my server:
>> 
>> [
>> Several years ago we began phasing out the PairList service by disabling
>> new list creation. Today we are announcing its final End-of-Life date:
>> January 1, 2026.
>> You are receiving this notice because your Pair Networks hosting account
>> still has an active PairList.
>> 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.
>> ]
>> 
>> 
>> I will download all the content and make it available on a
>> password-protected page -- at some point when I have the time, that is.
>> 
>> If you like, you can sign into the list with your credentials and
>> download the GZip'd archives yourselves, about 270 files monthly from
>> October 2003 to the present.
>> 
>> In the meantime, and while I wait to hear from Pair about their
>> suggestions for migration, CoCo group suggestions for migration are
>> welcome.
>> 
>> Dennis
>> 
>> 
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