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