On 21 Nov 22 10:23:02, Nigel Reed said the following to Ward Dossche:

I think it got shot down. How about an rip comment section in the nodelist, they'll be forever imortal then :)

Plus, it'll give the NLP something else to moan about.

We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

Nick

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Re: Re: RIP C.G. Learn - Sysop of Valhalla B
By: Nick Andre to Nigel Reed on Mon Nov 21 2022 11:57:54

I think it got shot down. How about an rip comment section in the nodelist, they'll be forever imortal then :)

Plus, it'll give the NLP something else to moan about.

We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

Is that because they were NC and there was nobody to remove them? :)
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On 21 Nov 22 11:37:02, Nigel Reed said the following to Nick Andre:

We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

Is that because they were NC and there was nobody to remove them? :)

Lol possibly

Nick

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We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

I even had somebody die on me during a connection ... weird when you realize you know the exact moment when somebody passed several countries away.

Plus the story of the Norwegian sysop who had died but there was money in his bank account and bills were auto paid ...

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We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

Is that because they were NC and there was nobody to remove them? :)

It took quite a long time to get the one, whose name we're not supposed to mention, removed after he passed.

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On 21 Nov 22 19:45:07, Ward Dossche said the following to Nick Andre:

I even had somebody die on me during a connection ... weird when you realiz you know the exact moment when somebody passed several countries away.

I remember having a very pleasant phone conversation with Roy Witt about a week before he made his grand-departure. On the phone he seemed to be much different than his online persona...

Plus the story of the Norwegian sysop who had died but there was money in h bank account and bills were auto paid ...

The same thing happened to at least two other Sysops "here", BBS systems. It was interesting and amusing to access someone else's system not really knowing that everything was on auto-pilot.

Nick

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On 21 Nov 22 19:52:44, Ward Dossche said the following to Nigel Reed:

Plus, it'll give the NLP something else to moan about.

The NLP is not necessarily by definition a negative entity, try looking at them as a resource instead of as the enemy.

You're right, the entity is a wonderful resource... for entertainment.

Nick

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On 21 Nov 2022 at 07:45p, Ward Dossche pondered and said...

I even had somebody die on me during a connection ... weird when you realize you know the exact moment when somebody passed several countries away.

Lordy that's no good. How did you know they died? Did someone come on and say X won't be replying now or similar?

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I even had somebody die on me during a connection ... weird when you PH>WD> realize you know the exact moment when somebody passed several

countries

away.

Lordy that's no good. How did you know they died? Did someone come on and say X won't be replying now or similar?

Person was terminal with cancer in a hospice with his Fido-machine with him.

There were like multiple connections with his system and while he was in his hospital room, the machine stayed on. When he blew his last breath hospital staff within a minute or two powered-down the PC ... The failure to establish a next session marked the moment.

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On 24 Nov 2022 at 01:52a, Ward Dossche pondered and said...

Person was terminal with cancer in a hospice with his Fido-machine with him.
There were like multiple connections with his system and while he was in his hospital room, the machine stayed on. When he blew his last breath hospital staff within a minute or two powered-down the PC ... The
failure to establish a next session marked the moment.

golly, yes I can now understand how this led to certain knowledge of his status... I'm not sure as much as I like BBSing I'd want to have a system running FTN software humming alongside me as I lay dying though.

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On 24 Nov 2022 at 02:02a, Ward Dossche pondered and said...

I have met several sysops and *Cs and never was disappointed, even when meeting people I fought heroic verbal battles with ... especially the Greeks.
Before retirement I traveled a lot for business and was able to link up with the RCs of most regions plus 8 ZCs ... whatever issue one had, it always automatically went away after a get together, breaking bread, sharing a beer...well, not with one ZC ... but in the end I met a lot of people, learned a lot and generally had a good time.

It's great you were able to weave travel with both work and hobby. It's always nice to experience new places and see some new and old faces along the way if you can.

I think the closest I may get to any of that is on a Zoom, Skype or Teams call with some fellow sysops... so not so much travel but at least some face to face chat without any keyboard text ambiguities :)

Come to think of it, it's not really something I have done much of at all since returning to the hobby circa 2012... most contacts tend to be helping others get set up and then moving on to the next person to help etc.

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On 25 Nov 22 08:29:13, Paul Hayton said the following to Ward Dossche:

I think the closest I may get to any of that is on a Zoom, Skype or Teams c with some fellow sysops... so not so much travel but at least some face to face chat without any keyboard text ambiguities :)

I'm hosting a Sysop-gathering at my place next year.

Nick

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On 24 Nov 2022 at 04:11p, Nick Andre pondered and said...

I think the closest I may get to any of that is on a Zoom, Skype or Te with some fellow sysops... so not so much travel but at least some fac face chat without any keyboard text ambiguities :)

I'm hosting a Sysop-gathering at my place next year.

Cool, I need a very large bridge to get across the water between us to make that one :)

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Paul, we could do a boys trip :-)

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On 24 Nov 2022 at 04:11p, Nick Andre pondered and said...

I think the closest I may get to any of that is on a Zoom, Skype

or Te

with some fellow sysops... so not so much travel but at least some

fac

face chat without any keyboard text ambiguities :)

I'm hosting a Sysop-gathering at my place next year.

Cool, I need a very large bridge to get across the water between us to make that one :)

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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Paul, we could do a boys trip :-)

PAUL HAYTON wrote to NICK ANDRE <=-

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On 24 Nov 2022 at 04:11p, Nick Andre pondered and said...

I think the closest I may get to any of that is on a Zoom, Skype

or Te

with some fellow sysops... so not so much travel but at least some

fac

face chat without any keyboard text ambiguities :)

I'm hosting a Sysop-gathering at my place next year.

Cool, I need a very large bridge to get across the water between us to make that one :)

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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Paul, we could do a boys trip :-)

Yeahhhhh .... 8-)

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Paul, we could do a boys trip :-)

Yeahhhhh .... 8-)

Or you could meet halfway and I could host here in Panama ;-)

I'm OK with Panama City ...

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Paul, we could do a boys trip :-)

Yeahhhhh .... 8-)

Or you could meet halfway and I could host here in Panama ;-)


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Re: Re: RIP C.G. Learn - Sysop of Valhalla B
By: Nick Andre to Nigel Reed on Mon Nov 21 2022 11:57 am

On 21 Nov 22 10:23:02, Nigel Reed said the following to Ward Dossche:

I think it got shot down. How about an rip comment section in the nodeli they'll be forever imortal then :)

Plus, it'll give the NLP something else to moan about.

We've had dead-Sysops listed before...

Nick

Sad smile, this one is listed for 2 weeks as another is trying to setup a node it seems. Waiting, but only a little. Not keeping them forever.

xxcarol
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