Hi All,
I'm sad to see that YahooGroups has decided to end, and want to join others who privately and publicly have thanked Chuck for his leadership and involving me at an early age to join him in moderating this platform. I too enjoyed the discussions we had on that platform and learned a ton from it and the Devfinance group (started by those at Ohio State University) over the past 25 years. For those who wish to continue discussing Microfinance Practice issues, I've created a group on Googlegroups, called, appropriately, Microfinance Practice. Over the course of the next few days I will submit your email address through the Google system to invite you to the group, however if you would like to join right away, feel free to go to this website:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/microfinance-practice
and register yourself.
Unfortunately, the content of previous posts to MFP cannot be archived. If there are some posts to the group that individuals have saved that you'd like to repeat and get comments on, I'd highly encourage that. I may bring up archived conversations from time to time (that for some crazy reason I saved in an ever expanding email archive). Issues such as commercialization of microfinance, mission drift, over-indebtedness, interest rate transparency (and the appropriate calculation of interest rates), group vs. individual lending, appropriate monitoring ratios, portfolio at risk vs arrears rates, 'FinTech' and so many other issues have been discussed (and that's just from memory) which we ought to continue to discuss.
If there are other platforms where such issues are already being discussed, please let the group know before it's too late. I'm happy to join those groups and contribute as I have ideas relevant to the current discussion topics.
Thanks and I look forward to seeing your posts at the new Microfinance Practice group.
Howard Brady
Co-founder, MFP
From: MicrofinancePractice@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MicrofinancePractice@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 4:12 AM
To: MFP
Subject: [MFP] MFP is completely coming to an end tomorrow
Hi all,
Howard and I set up this email group on Yahoo on 1 May 2001, over 19 years ago. We have 2,656 members. In the past, there was a large amount of discussion on this group, but for various reasons, it currently has little activity.
I just got notice that Yahoo is closing down the email group service tomorrow. They gave not even a week's notice. As of tomorrow, your emails will be returned as unsinkable.
So this is it…. Any discussions will now have to take place on other services you've migrated to. I'm certainly not going to go to the effort of setting up a new group and managing memberships when there is so little activity on the current group.
It has certainly been an interesting (and tumultuous) 19 years. Lots of differing views on the changes that happened in so short a time. Discussions of those views will now need to take place in other venues.
Regards to all,
Chuck Waterfield
MFP Founder
And yes… .it's 7am, I need to head out and milk my goats. They are wondering where I am.
Posted by: jaydeep chakraborty <jdchakra@yahoo.co.uk>
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