• Ben Ritchey... :(

    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Tue Jul 2 22:16:58 2019
    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

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Mark Lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Janis Kracht on Tue Jul 2 23:33:52 2019

    On 2019 Jul 02 22:11:58, you wrote to All:

    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 :(

    damnit!! damnit!! damnit!!

    thank you for posting and sharing the link, janis... i've signed the guestbook and lit a candle for him...

    )\/(ark

    And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
    so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
    up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
    the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
    it off.
    ... Do you even know WHAT your children are?
    ---
    * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Mark Lewis on Wed Jul 3 19:27:24 2019
    On 2019 Jul 02 22:11:58, you wrote to All:

    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 :(

    damnit!! damnit!! damnit!!

    Yeah, really really insane.

    thank you for posting and sharing the link, janis... i've signed the guestbook
    and lit a candle for him...

    Super... :)

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Mark Lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Janis Kracht on Wed Jul 3 20:50:14 2019

    On 2019 Jul 03 19:22:24, you wrote to me:

    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 :(

    damnit!! damnit!! damnit!!

    Yeah, really really insane.

    yep, that one hurt... badly... i couldn't see for an hour or more... writing what i did was hard to do because of that...

    thank you for posting and sharing the link, janis... i've signed the
    guestbook and lit a candle for him...

    Super... :)

    i wish i could have done more... i plan to when things get better...

    )\/(ark

    And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
    so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
    up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
    the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
    it off.
    ... January 20th 2013 - The Continuation Of An Error.
    ---
    * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)
  • From Jeff Smith@1:282/1031 to Janis Kracht on Wed Jul 3 05:01:20 2019
    Hello There,

    On 2019 Jul 02 22:11:58, you wrote to All:
    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 :(

    damnit!! damnit!! damnit!!

    thank you for posting and sharing the link, janis... i've signed the guestbook
    and lit a candle for him...

    As have I. I didn't know Ben personally but we did chat on occasion. I am very sorry to hear of his passing.

    Jeff

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: Fidoneet: The Ouija Board - Anoka, MN -bbs.ouijabrd.net (1:282/1031)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Jeff Smith on Mon Jul 8 11:05:02 2019
    Hi Jeff,

    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 :(

    damnit!! damnit!! damnit!!

    thank you for posting and sharing the link, janis... i've signed the guestboo >> and lit a candle for him...

    As have I. I didn't know Ben personally but we did chat on occasion. I am very
    sorry to hear of his passing.

    Ben was right there with me, every time I said to him "how about if we ..." concerning File distribution... great fellow.

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)