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   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.   
      
   Ben's daughter sent me a copy of Ben's obituary, you can find it here:   
      
   https://www.fountainmemorialfuneralhome.com/obituary/benjamin-dan-ritchey?lud=9   
   53BD8CCE1CAFA96A359635BF328BA44   
      
   We're working on getting the information we need to keep the NAB echolist up   
   to date, thank you to Nick Andre for helping out with this!   
      
   With deepest sympathies to the family, and thanks to all in Fidonet who   
   continue to keep the Echolist going... Janis   
      
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