Hello, Janis Kracht.
On 02/07/19 22:11 you wrote:

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 :(

Sincere condolences Janis. :(
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Hi Fabio,

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 :(

Sincere condolences Janis. :(

Thank you for your reply, Fabio - it is so sad when we lose good friends in Fidonet!

Take care,
Janis

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Hello, Janis Kracht.
On 7/2/19 10:11 PM you wrote:

Hi Everyone, 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 :( 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.

Ouch. This one hurts.

Condolences to you, Janice and everyone else that became friends with Ben. We've lost a great man.


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