moderated Re: Can't create a freecycle group #bug
Dave Wade
Jim,
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Where I live, we have both Freecycle and Freegle. Freegle was started in the uk because some folks didn't agree with some Freecycle policies. e.g. Living Creatures are not allowed on Freecycle but they are and anything legal is OK on Freegle. Whilst Freegle got off to good start it now seems to have withered and almost died. I believe that both started by using Yahoo groups but now they have their own dedicated systems. Freecycle is trademarked and groups have to be properly affiliated and use the Freecycle systems, so I believe it is correct to refuse to create groups with Freecycle in the name. I suspect existing groups were migrated from the existing Yahoo groups but I am not sure why they haven't been migrated to the Freecycle platform. Given the reasons behind the creating of Freegle I suspect some kind of internal politics, but I am sure that Freecycle will claim "ownership" of any group that purports to use part of its name and offer re-cycling services..... Dave
-----Original Message-----know (I cannot guarantee it) the name "Freegle" is not subject to anytrademark, so that may the the way for such groups to go here.
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