Subj : Dead Sysops and their BBS's
To : George Pope
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Sat Jul 07 2007 04:51 pm
>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
[email protected].
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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* Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
