Re: [Gramps-users] New name needed urgently

[Bret B. <br...@bu...>]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Benny Malengier wrote:

> 
> Just so that everyone is in the know.
>> From our archives of 1 april
>
> 2005:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1112336086l.7224l.7l%40pal
>
> 2006:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=200604011617.04017.trevor%40gramps-project.org
>
> 2007: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1175407353.5064.5.camel%40gromit.hsd1.co.comcast.net.
> <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1175407353.5064.5.camel%40gromit.hsd1.co.comcast.net>
>
> 2008:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=596159.32915.qm%40web52911.mail.re2.yahoo.com
>
> So please, no more mails to Grampian TV :-)
>
> As every year somebody else of the team did this, I consider my duty done.
>
> Benny
>
> 2009/4/2 Dianne Reuby <pra...@ya...>
>
>> But ...
>>
>>> In March 2006, the owners of Grampian Television, then known as SMG
>>> plc (now STV Group plc) announced that the Grampian TV brand would be
>>> scrapped and renamed, along with Scottish TV, as simply 'STV', with a
>>> new logo comprising a large, stylised letter 'S'.
>>
>> They're just bullies. The words GRAMPS and Grampian bear no resemblance
>> to each other. A Google search for "gramps" doesn't even have Grampian
>> on the first page. No-one outside the UK will have heard of them, and I
>> thought they'd gone long ago in the many ITV shuffles and buy-outs!
>>
>> Whatever you choose, I'd add the strap-line (or similar) "formerly known
>> as GRAMPS".
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Dianne
>>
>

Assuming that all of those links are posted to show that the whole thing 
was an April Fool's Day joke, does this mean that GRAMPS is not 
something to be taken seriously?

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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