[Baypiggies] Message sent to Suresh (baypiggies meetup)

[Marilyn Davis]

I wondered what the "RIG" was.  It had me lol:

Rigorous Indulgence Group

what a scam!  Hero?  Hah!

+1 for doing whatever you can.

Marilyn Davis


On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:49 PM, David Knupp <knupp at well.com> wrote:

> The problem is worse than people misreading the URL. The original URL now
> simply redirects to Suresh’s group:
>
> # original URL
> >>> url = 'http://www.meetup.com/baypiggies/'
> >>> tree = lxml.html.parse(url)
> >>> tree.find('.//title').text
> 'Bay Area Python 3.x Rigorous Indulgence Group (BayPRIGgies) (Palo Alto,
> CA)\n\n\n- Meetup'
>
>
> # new URL
> >>> url = 'http://www.meetup.com/baypriggies/'
> >>> tree = lxml.html.parse(url)
> >>> tree.find('.//title').text
> 'Bay Area Python 3.x Rigorous Indulgence Group (BayPRIGgies) (Palo Alto,
> CA)\n\n\n- Meetup’
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2016, at 9:39 AM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>Suresh has changed the name of his meetup to BayPRIGgies which has the
> new url:
> Well, I'm sure that people will misread that from time to time as
> Baypiggies.
> Surely he can come up with a better naming convention
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Bernd <berndca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Suresh has changed the name of his meetup to BayPRIGgies which has the
>> new url:
>>
>> http://www.meetup.com/BayPRIGgies/
>>
>> and added the following to the top of the groups home page:
>>
>> Disclaimer:
>>>
>>> We have nothing to do with the previous decades' organizations bearing
>>> the name BayPIGgies and the associated website or email.
>>>
>>
>> This should allow us to recover our groups url and past meetups with the
>> help of meetup tech support.
>> We would have to create a new meetup group for BayPIGgies.
>>
>> I understand that this is certainly not an ideal route. However I this
>> might be our easiest route right now.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Thanks, Bernd
>>
>>
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