Subj : CQ CQ CQ To : Al Kaiser From : mark lewis Date : Wed Apr 15 2015 11:14 pm On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Al Kaiser wrote to mark lewis: ml> if you haven't been reading the FIDONEWS echo, the moderator, roy ml> witt, k5rxt, went silent key on march 8th 2015... apparently he ml> has been fighting cancer for at least the last 5 years... may he ml> rest in peace.. AK> Sorry to hear this. RIP. absolutely... AK> Looks like someone will need to pick the moderation up for the AK> area to stay live. why is that? the area has not been echolisted in ages... roy removed all of his echos from the echolist after a snit/fight with a previous echolist operator... he did not add them to the echolist when the new operator took over the list... being carried by the backbone is different than being carried by distribution systems... it is a subtle but important difference... with all of that said, yes, i agree... someone should step up and pick up the echo(s) to keep them alive and hopefully not anyone who has tried to steal them away from roy in the past... )\/(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) .