• Ben Ritchey... :(

    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to mark lewis on Wednesday, July 03, 2019 19:22:24
    On 2019 Jul 02 22:11:58, you wrote to All:

    This is some very sad news I received today from Ben Ritchey's daughter..
    Ben died on June 27th,2019. We lost a great man this week, and I lost a
    great friend :(

    damnit!! damnit!! damnit!!

    Yeah, really really insane.

    thank you for posting and sharing the link, janis... i've signed the guestbook
    and lit a candle for him...

    Super... :)

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Janis Kracht on Wednesday, July 03, 2019 20:46:14
    On 2019 Jul 03 19:22:24, you wrote to me:

    This is some very sad news I received today from Ben Ritchey's
    daughter.. Ben died on June 27th,2019. We lost a great man this week,
    and I lost a great friend :(

    damnit!! damnit!! damnit!!

    Yeah, really really insane.

    yep, that one hurt... badly... i couldn't see for an hour or more... writing what i did was hard to do because of that...

    thank you for posting and sharing the link, janis... i've signed the
    guestbook and lit a candle for him...

    Super... :)

    i wish i could have done more... i plan to when things get better...

    )\/(ark

    And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
    so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
    up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
    the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
    it off.
    ... January 20th 2013 - The Continuation Of An Error.
    ---
    * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)
  • From Jeff Smith@1:282/1031 to Janis Kracht on Wednesday, July 03, 2019 04:55:20
    Hello There,

    On 2019 Jul 02 22:11:58, you wrote to All:
    This is some very sad news I received today from Ben Ritchey's daughter..
    Ben died on June 27th,2019. We lost a great man this week, and I lost a
    great friend :(

    damnit!! damnit!! damnit!!

    thank you for posting and sharing the link, janis... i've signed the guestbook
    and lit a candle for him...

    As have I. I didn't know Ben personally but we did chat on occasion. I am very sorry to hear of his passing.

    Jeff

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: Fidoneet: The Ouija Board - Anoka, MN -bbs.ouijabrd.net (1:282/1031)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Jeff Smith on Monday, July 08, 2019 11:00:02
    Hi Jeff,

    This is some very sad news I received today from Ben Ritchey's daughter.. >>> Ben died on June 27th,2019. We lost a great man this week, and I lost a >>> great friend :(

    damnit!! damnit!! damnit!!

    thank you for posting and sharing the link, janis... i've signed the guestboo >> and lit a candle for him...

    As have I. I didn't know Ben personally but we did chat on occasion. I am very
    sorry to hear of his passing.

    Ben was right there with me, every time I said to him "how about if we ..." concerning File distribution... great fellow.

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)