[Baypiggies] Message sent to Suresh (baypiggies meetup)

[William Deegan]

He seems unwilling to relinquish the meetup group so we'll have to see if
we can work with meetup.com support to retrieve the group.
I'll publish updates as there is any notable progress.

-Bill

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Karen Dalton <kd at karend.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> His actions throughout are still suspect and less than honorable. So
> disappointing and surprising to me in this this community.
>
> -Karen
>
> On 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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