Subj : Dead Sysops and their BBS's
To   : Donald Tidmore
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sun Jul 08 2007 08:09 am

Donald Tidmore wrote in a message to George Pope:

 DT> When Gordon Lewicky died in July 2005, which was two years ago now,
 DT> I have no idea how long people kept his BBS listed in the Fidonet
 DT> 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.

 DT> always possible that the Fidonet organization has robots that check
 DT> on connections frequently to see which ones respond as being in
 DT> existence, or indicate that they are offline by the fact that the
 DT> 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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