Enough Already
Wow – so much grief about putting two cropped words from the english language together.
Now even though I thought people would understand PubCon to mean the generic name for a group meeting up at a pub, it seems many get a bit confused.
So one of the things to come out of this is that maybe we should come up with a more unique name for our meetings.
How about – The London SEO Not A PubCon Group? The London SEO We’re So Lame According To Bill Group? The London SEO Brett Tabke Depreciation Group? My personal favourite would be – The London SEO Fuck Everyone Who Wants To Moan And Bitch About A Bloody Word That Has Already Wasted Too Much Of My Precious Fucking Time Group.
The thing that annoys me though, is that if I change things now to help the confused people and stop this useless bickering, people are gonna think that I’ve backed down to Brett’s legal threat, but that is not the case. Fortunately, I work with a large dot com Plc with a big legal and IP department who found this whole issue hugely entertaining and they have told me that I do not need to change the phrase. And on top of that I don’t really give a shit what some people think.
So enough’s enough – we’re not keeping the phrase, we’re not going to come up with an alternative, I’m just getting rid of it.
Hopefully this will be the end of it. Apart from a return to good form over at TW, this has been a complete waste of time.
Mike
For the sake of brevity – I will assume that you never got the first emails sent to the group at various addresses. Since the whois info is hidden, no emails were responded to – so we are still not sure who owns this site.
What I suggested was joining forces and holding an event on the same day. The point being that two groups could provide MORE BEER at a cheaper cost than just one group. I couldn’t care less what you guys call yourself, but if it shows up as pubcon in the US in the engines and on sites aimed at the US – we have no choice but send a letter per legal advice. Which is also why I did not persue it vigourously in any way or form other than to make sure it got to someone that was actually programming the site (which is what they say is required).
> stop this useless bickering
Remember the good old days when it was only about page views, inventory, and cpms?
> bobothecat
Is not me and I don’t think it is anyone from this office. We use billthecat as our test programming account on wmw.
> The London SEO
Loved seeing the shirts in beantown!
> this has been a complete waste of time.
Ditto.
> Hopefully this will be the end of it.
Stuff like this takes on a life of it’s own.
Back to the real crux of the issue here: should the beer be served cold or at room temperature?
Brett
> Back to the real crux of the issue here: should the beer be served cold or at room temperature?
COLD!
Wuss.
To avoid further conflict I probably should have written
> COLD!
^
Wuss.
🙂
Hey Brett
Good of you to come back and post here – shows some moral fibre.
> we are still not sure who owns this site.
The site is owned by a small non-commercial group us, but if there is any future communication, just send it to the same law firm as before.
> shows up as pubcon in the US in the engines
That JasonD and his SEO funny-business – I’m not sure how it all works myself.
> Stuff like this takes on a life of it’s own.
Yeah, no matter how much fun it was at the time, best not to let these things go to far.
> Loved seeing the shirts in beantown!
I can order one for you if you want.
Anyway, we should all just let sleeping cats lie and good luck to you in the future.
> should the beer be served cold or at room temperature?
Sorry Jay, but I gotta throw my cat in with the cold crowd. But of course the beer should only be real ale, not any of this girlie bobo lager crap.
Mike