> 13 Sep 15 15:25, you wrote to Lee Lofaso:

 >  >> Our beloved moderator, Bob Klahn, has died.

 >  TR> Has he really died? Or is this just another one of your silly jokes?
  
 > after all this time you really have to ask that??? [smh]
 
When Roy Witt died and I saw the first messages about it, I knew Witt
had so many enemies in Fido it would not have been beneath one or two
of them to start a rumor of that sort, taking advantage of Witt's absence
due to his illness. I stayed out of the first traffic over it waiting to 
see if it would  turn out to be real or not. 

In this case, Klahn hasn't posted in Fido in quite some time, but that 
isn't really unusual about him. He usually gets his head handed to him
by one or another of his Fidonet enemies, and lays low for a time till 
he either thinks everyone's forgotten how wrong he was on an issue, or
he thinks up some new idiot-twist to it and comes charging back with 
more nonsense, only to get his head handed to him once more.

This particular `sulk' has been of much longer duration than usual for 
Klahn to do a disappearing act. Typically, he's back at it by now.
Especially in regard to the controversy so-called `black lives matter' 
stirred up.

This absence is not normal for him. Especially when seeing `my' name in 
the *from* field in a message in his echo.

Something's wrong or he'd have come out swinging by now. Somebody should
check on him to see if he's all right.
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