I'd use ```if(conference.trim())``` to be safe then. We should make sure trim doesn't throw an error on an empty string, though. I was pretty inexperienced with this in 2011, so I wouldn't interpret much into any code choices I made.

> Also, interestingly, you have flipped the logic of these tests previously 1d60337 Any idea why?
If you look at the commit, that was to line up the test detect with the test import (which was of the Newsletter version) . So it makes sense to switch this back (and probably was a bad fix in the first place)