Re: Re: RIP C.G. Learn - Sysop of Valhalla B
By: Nick Andre to Nigel Reed on Mon Nov 21 2022 11:57:54

I think it got shot down. How about an rip comment section in the nodelist, they'll be forever imortal then :)

Plus, it'll give the NLP something else to moan about.

We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

Is that because they were NC and there was nobody to remove them? :)
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On 21 Nov 22 10:23:02, Nigel Reed said the following to Ward Dossche:

I think it got shot down. How about an rip comment section in the nodelist, they'll be forever imortal then :)

Plus, it'll give the NLP something else to moan about.

We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

Nick

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On 21 Nov 22 11:37:02, Nigel Reed said the following to Nick Andre:

We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

Is that because they were NC and there was nobody to remove them? :)

Lol possibly

Nick

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We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

I even had somebody die on me during a connection ... weird when you realize you know the exact moment when somebody passed several countries away.

Plus the story of the Norwegian sysop who had died but there was money in his bank account and bills were auto paid ...

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We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

Is that because they were NC and there was nobody to remove them? :)

It took quite a long time to get the one, whose name we're not supposed to mention, removed after he passed.

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On 21 Nov 22 19:45:07, Ward Dossche said the following to Nick Andre:

I even had somebody die on me during a connection ... weird when you realiz you know the exact moment when somebody passed several countries away.

I remember having a very pleasant phone conversation with Roy Witt about a week before he made his grand-departure. On the phone he seemed to be much different than his online persona...

Plus the story of the Norwegian sysop who had died but there was money in h bank account and bills were auto paid ...

The same thing happened to at least two other Sysops "here", BBS systems. It was interesting and amusing to access someone else's system not really knowing that everything was on auto-pilot.

Nick

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On 21 Nov 22 19:52:44, Ward Dossche said the following to Nigel Reed:

Plus, it'll give the NLP something else to moan about.

The NLP is not necessarily by definition a negative entity, try looking at them as a resource instead of as the enemy.

You're right, the entity is a wonderful resource... for entertainment.

Nick

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On 21 Nov 2022 at 07:45p, Ward Dossche pondered and said...

I even had somebody die on me during a connection ... weird when you realize you know the exact moment when somebody passed several countries away.

Lordy that's no good. How did you know they died? Did someone come on and say X won't be replying now or similar?

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I even had somebody die on me during a connection ... weird when you PH>WD> realize you know the exact moment when somebody passed several

countries

away.

Lordy that's no good. How did you know they died? Did someone come on and say X won't be replying now or similar?

Person was terminal with cancer in a hospice with his Fido-machine with him.

There were like multiple connections with his system and while he was in his hospital room, the machine stayed on. When he blew his last breath hospital staff within a minute or two powered-down the PC ... The failure to establish a next session marked the moment.

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On 24 Nov 2022 at 01:52a, Ward Dossche pondered and said...

Person was terminal with cancer in a hospice with his Fido-machine with him.
There were like multiple connections with his system and while he was in his hospital room, the machine stayed on. When he blew his last breath hospital staff within a minute or two powered-down the PC ... The
failure to establish a next session marked the moment.

golly, yes I can now understand how this led to certain knowledge of his status... I'm not sure as much as I like BBSing I'd want to have a system running FTN software humming alongside me as I lay dying though.

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Re: Re: RIP C.G. Learn - Sysop of Valhalla B
By: Nick Andre to Nigel Reed on Mon Nov 21 2022 11:57 am

On 21 Nov 22 10:23:02, Nigel Reed said the following to Ward Dossche:

I think it got shot down. How about an rip comment section in the nodeli they'll be forever imortal then :)

Plus, it'll give the NLP something else to moan about.

We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

Nick

Sad smile, this one is listed for 2 weeks as another is trying to setup a node it seems. Waiting, but only a little. Not keeping them forever.

xxcarol
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