Hello, Janis Kracht.
On 7/2/19 10:11 PM you wrote:

 JK> Hi Everyone, This is some very sad news I received today from Ben 
 JK> Ritchey's daughter.. Ben died on June 27th,2019.  We lost a great 
 JK> man this week, and I lost a great friend  Ben was a wonderful 
 JK> guy who worked with me from early in my fidonet career to the week 
 JK> just before he died.  He loved Fidonet and was happy to spend time 
 JK> updating not only the echolist, but the software we use to 
 JK> maintain our database of echotags and moderators.  When my own 
 JK> family ran into problems a few years ago with keeping 
 JK> echolist@filegate.net going, Ben was happy to help out by setting 
 JK> up a mirror at Nick's system.. That mirror continues today along 
 JK> with echolist@filegate.net.
Ouch. This one hurts. 

Condolences to you, Janice and everyone else that became friends with Ben.
We've lost a great man. 


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Mike
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