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  • Dead Sysops and their BBS's

    From Donald Tidmore@1:261/38 to George Pope on Sat Jul 7 16:51:36 2007
    I wonder how the Fido network will know if a sysop drops dead suddenly, if he'
    not connected iRL with someone else in the network? (as happened to a couple local sysops here -- one dropped dead, but his boss was a personal friend,
    discovered the problem, and kept fido here rolling; another one went (Mr. 1:1/ >himself, Bob Satti) and his wife passed everything over to a fellow local fido
    sysop. . .

    They might not ever know about the situation if someone does not notify one of the Fidonet managers I would guess. If you know a sysop has died, you can notify that sysop's Fidonet region coordinator if you know them. Or you can notify Janis Kracht who is head of Fidonet in North America via Netmail, or via
    her email address janis@filegate.net.

    When Gordon Lewicky died in July 2005, which was two years ago now, I have no idea how long people kept his BBS listed in the Fidonet records until someone noticed that the bbs no longer existed. Its always possible that the Fidonet organization has robots that check on connections frequently to see which ones respond as being in existence, or indicate that they are offline by the fact that the robot can't login to the site. Donald

    P.S. We all forget at times to change the Subject of messages, but you would expect that to be done eventually. So I've done that for you George.

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Donald Tidmore on Sun Jul 8 08:09:14 2007
    Donald Tidmore wrote in a message to George Pope:

    When Gordon Lewicky died in July 2005, which was two years ago now,
    I have no idea how long people kept his BBS listed in the Fidonet
    records until someone noticed that the bbs no longer existed. Its

    I knew of Gordon's death within two days of it occuring. They were keeping the
    board up for a while for him, but took it down due to lack of time and experience.

    always possible that the Fidonet organization has robots that check
    on connections frequently to see which ones respond as being in
    existence, or indicate that they are offline by the fact that the
    robot can't login to the site. Donald

    Nah, no robots. People know each other and we call to check up on each other.
    If I disappeared, I know that within a day someone would be calling my wife to see what happened to me.

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Jason Hud@1:124/7013 to Sean Dennis on Tue Jul 10 01:40:59 2007
    Re: Dead Sysops and their BBS's
    By: Sean Dennis to Donald Tidmore on Sun Jul 08 2007 08:09 am


    Nah, no robots. People know each other and we call to check up on each othe If I disappeared, I know that within a day someone would be calling my wife see what happened to me.

    and you will know within a day that i die because there will be a parade in the streets!

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