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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. He 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.fountainmemorialfuneralhome.com/obituary/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. He will be greatly missed :(
Sincerely,
Janis
FIDOGAZETTE Vol 13 No 27 Page 2 July 03, 2019
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