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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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?
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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)

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.
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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

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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
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