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Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:33 pm
by sagara
PeterB wrote:I think that it all depends on whether teyes wants to go down that route again. I am unreliably informed that he may not.

What is the source of your information, please? This is the first time I've heard such a claim. Did you contact him?
eijo, a former global moderator

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:22 pm
by Annapurna
Kim O'Hara wrote:
msmedusa wrote: Hi :smile:

A great big 'ditto' to Vardali from me too! E-Sangha was my stepping stone too.
...
Despite all the problems I for one am sad to see the end of the E-Sangha era.
Me too. I learned a lot there.
:namaste:
Kim
Same here. It may not be time yet to say the era is over...

Eijo, hi, nice to see you again.

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:49 pm
by PeterB
sagara wrote:
PeterB wrote:I think that it all depends on whether teyes wants to go down that route again. I am unreliably informed that he may not.

What is the source of your information, please? This is the first time I've heard such a claim. Did you contact him?
eijo, a former global moderator
Not I Eijo. A third party which is why I said " unreliably ". Not that the person is unreliable, just that it is not first hand.

Anyway, now you are here, why not pull up a chair and have a cup of tea ?

:anjali:

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:28 pm
by mfesmith
E-sangha outlived its usefulness sometime ago. It is natural for things to split apart, and E-Sangha could not be everything to everyone. Even if E-Sangha were to return, it is most unlikely that I would be participating much, if at all, and certainly not as a mod or an admin.

If you want to see what I am up to, you can visit http://www.bhaisajya.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and http://sakyatradition.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Best wishes,

Namdrol

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:48 pm
by Anders
mfesmith wrote:E-sangha outlived its usefulness sometime ago. It is natural for things to split apart, and E-Sangha could not be everything to everyone. Even if E-Sangha were to return, it is most unlikely that I would be participating much, if at all, and certainly not as a mod or an admin.

If you want to see what I am up to, you can visit http://www.bhaisajya.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and http://sakyatradition.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Best wishes,

Namdrol
It's a veritable e-sangha fest now. :o

Fun to see you here. Can we expect to see you elsewhere online if an inter-sectarian forum were to pop up that suited your tastes or are you forum celibate these days?

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:16 pm
by mfesmith
Anders Honore wrote:
Fun to see you here. Can we expect to see you elsewhere online if an inter-sectarian forum were to pop up that suited your tastes or are you forum celibate these days?
I am extremely busy these days, not "forum" celibate. Lots of folks still track me down, ask questions and so on-- but generally through face book.

N

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:33 pm
by LauraJ
mfesmith wrote:E-sangha outlived its usefulness sometime ago. It is natural for things to split apart, and E-Sangha could not be everything to everyone. Even if E-Sangha were to return, it is most unlikely that I would be participating much, if at all, and certainly not as a mod or an admin.

If you want to see what I am up to, you can visit http://www.bhaisajya.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and http://sakyatradition.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Best wishes,

Namdrol
Thank you Namdrol :anjali:

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:09 am
by tiltbillings
jcsuperstar wrote:in my opinion the most interesting thing about esangha though is the unintended creation of so many other buddhist web boards
Whose URLs were not allowed to be posted on E-Sangha.

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:29 am
by Mr. G
Hey all, nice to see familiar faces here.

So does anyone know of any good forums for Tibetan Buddhists?

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:33 am
by retrofuturist
Greetings Mr. Gordo,

Have you tried...?

Dharma Wheel
http://www.dharmawheel.net/index.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Metta,
Retro. :)

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:37 am
by Paññāsikhara
mfesmith wrote:E-sangha outlived its usefulness sometime ago. It is natural for things to split apart, and E-Sangha could not be everything to everyone. Even if E-Sangha were to return, it is most unlikely that I would be participating much, if at all, and certainly not as a mod or an admin.

If you want to see what I am up to, you can visit http://www.bhaisajya.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and http://sakyatradition.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Best wishes,

Namdrol
Hi, Namdrol.

Interesting blogs. Good to see you have some stuff cooking there.

There is also a companion Forum to this one, for Mahayana / Vajrayana, --> http://www.dharmawheel.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:10 am
by tiltbillings
This thread will remain locked. While Malcolm Smith’s (Namdrol) assessment is that E-Sangha is now defunct, the final word is really resides with Leo (Teyes) if it is going to remain in its present state or find a new incarnation. If anyone has any definite information, please leave a msg with one of the admins or mods and we will post it.

If we have a confirmed death of E-Sangha from Leo himself, we can then open something of a carefully moderated "lessons learned" style post-mortem thread.

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:36 am
by retrofuturist
Greetings,

As Tilt has advised, there has been no official word that E-Sangha has been shut down in any permanent sense. The E-Sangha portal page still shows Teyes requesting assistance.

Taking that in mind, the flurry of comments reflecting on E-Sangha's legacy have been removed from this topic so that this topic can once again focus exclusively on E-Sangha news.

If you have any such news, please inform one of our staff and we will post it for others to hear.

Metta,
Retro. :)

Re: E-sangha news

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:03 pm
by retrofuturist
Greetings,

The E-Sangha offshoot "Buddhist Community" has been taken offline.

Here is a response that a concerned user received from the Abuse Department of the site host....
Due to complaints form yourself and many others on the forums and no response from the server owner each time I tried to have this corrected, the server has been taken down until it is agreed to be fixed.
Source: http://www.freesangha.com/forums/index. ... 2#msg11892" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Metta,
Retro. :)