Microfinance Practice: Re: [MFP] MFP is completely coming to an end tomorrow

Well, we certainly have more postings in 24 hours than we do in a full year lately. This is more like how MFP used to be 5+ years ago. Nice to hear from so many old friends and colleagues.

Off-line, I've had a few people with ideas and willingness to set up an archive of the emails. If anything comes of that, we will use Howard's google group and LinkedIn to get the word out where you can find the information. Best-case scenario we could have some cataloguing by topic providing a way to see how discussions evolved over the past two decades. (There were certainly a lot of postings in April 2007 when the Compartamos IPO happened!)

Chuck

On Oct 15, 2020, at 7:16 AM, hugh@vsla.net [MicrofinancePractice] <MicrofinancePractice@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Good God! 19 years. Thanks Chuck. It was always a pleasure when every few months it would come back to life. Some enjoyable exchanges and a good place to sound off among friends.

Hugh

From: MicrofinancePractice@yahoogroups.com <MicrofinancePractice@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 14 October 2020 13:12
To: MFP <microfinancepractice@yahoogroups.com>
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.