Thank you Chris
for the tremendous contribution you’ve made to the constellation family for
nearly two decades - CT has been a valuable resource for me over the years.
All the best and hasta la Vista
from Hong Kong - Brigitta Dunki
From: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Samstag, 24. Oktober 2020 14:35
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ConstellationTalk] yahoo groups shutdown December 15: Adios Amigos
Thank you everyone for all the validation. I have to say I enjoy it and it has
made me reminisce about various Constellation Talk interactions.
We have indeed had some rich discussions over the years - as well as some
entertaining banter.
I realised that I have understated how long it has been going.
CT actually started around 2002. So it has been going for 18 years.
There has been a massive amount of email exchange in that time. I have 7412
emails in my Gmail folder. I also have zipped files of the conversations
downloaded from Yahoo Groups on December 23, 2019.. That is when they shut down
their archives. I must warn you they are difficult to make sense of. If I
could figure a way to make the emails from my Gmail folder accessible via
dropbox or google drive or something like that I would be glad to do so..
Some people have communicated privately and some people in this forum about
their offers of help or suggestions re moving forward. I think it would be best
to keep the process transparent on this forum. This is a big change to how we
have traditionally used this forum but this is a very special circumstance.
To make sure that we don't miss the boat, I will make some executive
decisions. However even after I make a decision, I will still be open to change
if someone has a useful suggestion.
At this point, I would like to take Barbara Morgan's offer to archive the
emails on The Knowing Field website. It feels like an appropriate place to me.
I expect Barbara could use some help with the technological side of this..
Hopefully, you will be able to do it in a way that they would be reasonably
easily accessible where people could search them for themes such as
"phenomenology". Barbara, please feel free to use this forum to reach out for
any help that you need. Some of you will notice that I have now mentioned tow
possibilities in regard to archiving the emails from CT. For the moment I think
it would be valuable to explore both options..
Regarding setting up another group below is the information supplied by Yahoo.
Anyone who wants to run with that is welcome. I have just exported a list of
the member's emails to a CSV file. I will only pass this on if someone has
successfully set up a group on another platform. If anyone wants their email
removed from this file, please let me know.
Yahoo Information
Although we do not have any official partnerships with any of the following
groups' sites, we feel that the least we can do for our loyal customers is to
recommend some reliable sites for our users to continue having group
communications. These sites are simple and easy to use.
The site we recommend the most is Nextdoor, as it has a
<https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/How-to-switch-your-Yahoo-group-to-a-Nextdoor-group?language=en_US>
help page advising how to switch your Yahoo Groups to their site!
*
<https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/How-to-create-a-group?language=en_US>
Nextdoor - Use any email account to sign up
* <https://www.facebook.com/groups/> Facebook Groups - Requires a
Facebook account
* <https://groups.google.com/> Google Groups - The admin of the group
must have a Gmail account
* <https://groups.io/> Groups.io - The paid version allows for importing
members from Yahoo Group
Cheers
Chris Walsh
Melbourne, Australia
ph +61 (0)3 9420 1425
www.mindfulness.org.au <https://www.mindfulness.org.au/>
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 4:13 PM Barbara Morgan theknowingfield@xxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Chris
You and I have run parallel paths for some time now and I have loved how our
two international networks have run parallel with great mutual co-operation
amidst at times some very controversial issues!!
As a gesture of gratitude for all your hard work I would be willing to add to
the Knowing Field website the archive collection of emails. I haven’t had
chance yet to read the stream of responses so it could be someone else has
offered an alternative. Let me know if you’re interested in such an idea.
Many thanks for your excellent moderating over the years and I wish you well
moving forward from here.
Warmly
Barbara
Sent from my iPhone
On 22 Oct 2020, at 08:27, Steve Vinay Gunther spirited@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris
I understand, the march of time and the configurations of technology..change so
fast these days.
Thanks for your quality moderation over the years, and your support of the
constellation community. Constellation Talk is the only online group I have
stayed with - its been so valuable, with great input and discussions from
everyone. It has remained free of negativity, which is highly unusual for such
groups, and reflects both the maturity of the participants, and the steady
moderation in the background.
Vinay
On 22 Oct 2020, at 6:03 pm, Chris Walsh chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk]
<ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone
As you are probably aware I founded Constellation Talk in 2008 and the
conversation was quite vigorous for many years. It's been a blast!
..
Since the development of social media, like Facebook, constellation talk has
progressively become less active. This shared experience of Yahoo groups is
precisely why Yahoo Groups is shutting down. I personally think it is time to
accept that Constellation Talk has done its time. For me, it is time to let it
go rather than try to recreate it on another platform. Of course, if someone
else wants to set something else up they are welcome to do so
If anyone wants to use the last 6-7 weeks of Constellation Talk to organise the
setting up of something else up they are welcome to do so.
Alo Yahoo stopped making the archive available some time ago.
I have collected all the emails in a folder on my computer but I am not sure
what to do with them. If anyone wants to make an archive to share I am happy
for them to do that also
Finally, I would like to thank all the participants for a great ride over the
years with all the shared experiences and learnings. The mutual support has
been fantastic. Even the arguments have been valuable learning esperiences.
So thank you everyone
Stay well
and
Go well
Hasta la vista (my old sign out)
Chris Walsh
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