Hello Tim,   
      
   [..]   
      
    >> Roy was an idiot.   
      
    TR> Witt wasn't well-liked by many.   
      
   That depends on whether you were on the sending or receiving end.   
   You have to remember that Roy was a product of the flame echoes.   
   I didn't really mind him, as I understood where he was coming from.   
   But some folks did not understand (and never wanted to understand).   
      
    TR> I strongly suspect that a large part of that was his setup was such that   
    TR> none of the `usual suspects' in the North American Backbone could shut him   
    TR> down.   
      
   He did have brains enough not to trust others to feed him the   
   messages he wanted.  If other sysops thought along the same lines   
   as him there would be no NAB (or any other demented power structure   
   within fidonet) to speak of.   
      
    TR>>> This absence is not normal for him. Especially when seeing `my'   
    TR> 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   
    TR>>> should 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.   
      
    TR> All the same, someone should check on his wellbeing.   
      
   A few years ago I posted a message to all in this echo about   
   Sue Alexander, citing her obituary.  She was a published author,   
   and nationally known.  Yet a certain "castrati" crowd, led by   
   an amateur shit stirring troll, continues to claim that I made   
   it all up.  Despite the fact that I had clearly cited my source.   
      
   There are other examples that come to mind.  The point is,   
   those who have no argument are left with nothing but personal   
   attacks.  And that impresses no one.  Kind of like jerking off.   
   I mean, really.  Do you beat your meat?  Be honest ...   
      
    >> 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 ...   
      
    TR> Or he might have just dropped out of Fido. Something I've considered for   
    TR> quite a while myself.   
      
   And if he did, who can blame him?  On the other hand, there   
   are plenty of folks who can blame him.  But not until they blame   
   Obama first.  After all, everything is Obama's fault.  Can't have   
   it any other way.  Just can't.  :)   
      
   Check your email for a nice little surprise.    
      
   --Lee   
      
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