Hello Tim,   
      
    >>>> Our beloved moderator, Bob Klahn, has died.   
      
    TR>>> Has he really died? Or is this just another one of your silly   
    TR> jokes?   
      
    >> after all this time you really have to ask that??? [smh]   
      
    TR> When Roy Witt died and I saw the first messages about it, I knew Witt   
    TR> had so many enemies in Fido it would not have been beneath one or two   
    TR> of them to start a rumor of that sort, taking advantage of Witt's absence   
    TR> due to his illness. I stayed out of the first traffic over it waiting to   
    TR> see if it would  turn out to be real or not.   
      
   Roy was an idiot.  But so are we all.  What made things confusing   
   was the way Roy's death was handled (or mishandled).  Some people in   
   fidonet should have had more sense.  Strangest case of a dead man   
   remaining alive (at least as a node) than anybody can remember.   
      
    TR> In this case, Klahn hasn't posted in Fido in quite some time, but that   
    TR> isn't really unusual about him. He usually gets his head handed to him   
    TR> by one or another of his Fidonet enemies, and lays low for a time till   
    TR> he either thinks everyone's forgotten how wrong he was on an issue, or   
    TR> he thinks up some new idiot-twist to it and comes charging back with   
    TR> more nonsense, only to get his head handed to him once more.   
      
   The last reference I was able to find was a letter to the editor   
   in the Toldedo Blade newspaper, dated May 29, 2015, written by   
   Bob Klahn - dealing with the subject of the University of Toledo   
   football team.   
      
   http://www.toledoblade.com/Editorials/2015/05/29/Flag-on-the-play-1.html   
      
   Nothing wrong with praying at football games.  I watch quarterbacks   
   and receivers do it all the time, trying to complete a Hail Mary pass   
   on the last play of the game.  And sometimes it works.  But only for   
   the Atlanta Falcons when playing the New Orleans Saints.   
      
    TR> This particular `sulk' has been of much longer duration than usual for   
    TR> Klahn to do a disappearing act. Typically, he's back at it by now.   
    TR> Especially in regard to the controversy so-called `black lives matter'   
    TR> stirred up.   
      
    TR> This absence is not normal for him. Especially when seeing `my' name in   
    TR> the *from* field in a message in his echo.   
      
    TR> Something's wrong or he'd have come out swinging by now. Somebody should   
    TR> check on him to see if he's all right.   
      
   Given his sudden disappearance from cyberspace, and no obituary   
   having been published, along with his web page having been taken   
   offline, leads me to believe that either his computer died and he   
   decided not to return to cyberlife, or that he gave his computer   
   to the needy and decided not to return to cyberlife.   
      
   I lost a computer thanks to Katrina.  I lost another computer   
   thanks to Rita.  Living in an area prone to hurricanes, I takes   
   my chances.  Sometimes my computer lives, sometimes it dies.   
      
   OTOH, what most probably happened was Bob Klahn upgraded to   
   Windows 10.  And then he got the `Something Else' screen ...   
      
   --Lee   
      
   --- MesNews/1.08.05.00-gb   
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