<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Regaining control of the group may be the only way to contact the ~1200 former members. He should easily be able to afford starting a new group with the 71 members X $20 fees he has collected this far (plus additional fees to attend the 2 upcoming talks). :-p. </div><div><br>On Jan 15, 2016, at 9:22 AM, William Deegan <<a href="mailto:bdbaddog@gmail.com">bdbaddog@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">He seems unwilling to relinquish the meetup group so we'll have to see if we can work with <a href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a> support to retrieve the group.<div>I'll publish updates as there is any notable progress.</div><div><br></div><div>-Bill</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Karen Dalton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kd@karend.net" target="_blank">kd@karend.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">He has intentionally maintained a very similar name and similar mixed casing as a way to suggest association with the original group (and potentially get those membership fees) despite the "disclaimer". Why would he maintain a similar name and mixed casing at all if he really did want a separate group? I hope it does allow the real group to regain the Meetup though. </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">His actions throughout are still suspect and less than honorable. So disappointing and surprising to me in this this community. </span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">-Karen</span></div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Jan 15, 2016, at 7:25 AM, Bernd <<a href="mailto:berndca@gmail.com" target="_blank">berndca@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Suresh has changed the name of his meetup to BayPRIGgies which has the new url:<br><br><a href="http://www.meetup.com/BayPRIGgies/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/BayPRIGgies/</a><br><br>and added the following to the top of the groups home page:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Disclaimer:<br><br>We have nothing to do with the previous decades' organizations bearing the name BayPIGgies and the associated website or email.<br></blockquote><br>This should allow us to recover our groups url and past meetups with the help of meetup tech support.<br>We would have to create a new meetup group for BayPIGgies.<br><br>I understand that this is certainly not an ideal route. However I this might be our easiest route right now.<br><br>What do you think?<br><br>Thanks, Bernd<br><br></div>
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