FIDOGAZETTE, RU.FIDONET.TODAY: Скончался Ben Ritchey

Vladimir Fyodorov написал(а) к All в Jul 19 09:11:32 по местному времени:


> 27 июня ушёл из жизни Ben Ritchey, 1:393/68. Он долгие годы поддерживал
> эхолист североамериканского бэкбона, был автором программ для ведения
> базы данных модераторов и эхоконференций в Z1. Созданная им в 1997 году
> Positronium BBS оказалась одной из самых долгоживущих BBS и проработала
> буквально до его последнего дня. Пусть земля ему будет пухом.

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* Area : FIDOGAZETTE
* From : Janis Kracht, 1:261/38 (03 Июля 2019 23:17)
* Subj : FidoGazette Vol 13 no 27 Page: 2
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This is some very sad news I received this week from Ben
Ritchey's daughter.

Ben died on June 27th,2019. Fidonet lost a great man this week,
and I lost a great friend :(

Ben was a wonderful guy who worked with me from early in my
fidonet career to the week just before he died. Нe loved
Fidonet and was happy to spend time updating not only the
echolist, but the software we use to maintain our database of
echotags and moderators.

When my own family ran into problems a few years ago with
keeping echolist@filegate.net going, Ben was happy to help out
by setting up a mirror at Nick's system.. That mirror continues
today along with echolist@filegate.net.

Ben's daughter sent me a copy of Ben's obituary, you can find it
here:

https://www.fountainmemorialfuneralh.../benjamin-dan-
ritchey?lud=953BD8CCE1CAFA96A359635BF328BA44

We're working on getting the information we need to keep the NAB
echolist up to date, thank you to Nick Andre for helping out
with this!

Deepest sympathies to the family, and thanks to all in Fidonet
who continue to keep the Echolist and all the other FDNs
going...

And... If you take a look at filegate.zxx that was hatched out
this evening, you can see by all the TBA notations in that file
just how much work Ben dedicated to Fidonet every day when he
was with us. Нe will be greatly missed :(

Sincerely,
Janis
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* Area : RU.FIDONET.TODAY
* From : Bender Rodriguez, 2:5053/58 (04 Июля 2019 09:00)
* Subj : Этот день в истории Фидо
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4 июл 1997. В городе Лафейетт (штат Луизиана, США) заработала Positronium BBS (сисоп - Ben Ritchey). Она оказалась одной из самых долгоживущих BBS. Диалапная часть проработала 21 год, по телнету доступна до сих пор.
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