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       This is some very sad news I received this week from Ben   
       Ritchey's daughter.   
      
       Ben died on June 27th,2019.  Fidonet 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=953BD8CCE1CAFA96A359635BF328BA44   
      
       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!   
      
       Deepest sympathies to the family, and thanks to all in Fidonet   
       who continue to keep the Echolist and all the other FDNs   
       going...   
      
       And... If you take a look at filegate.zxx that was hatched out   
       this evening, you can see by all the TBA notations in that file   
       just how much work Ben dedicated to Fidonet every day when he   
       was with us.  He will be greatly missed :(   
      
       Sincerely,   
       Janis   
      
      
      
       FIDOGAZETTE  Vol 13 No 27    Page  2         July 03, 2019   
      
      
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