> Hello Tim,
 >  TR> When Roy Witt died and I saw the first messages about it, I knew Witt
 >  TR> had so many enemies in Fido it would not have been beneath one or two
 >  TR> of them to start a rumor of that sort, taking advantage of Witt's
 >  TR> absence due to his illness. I stayed out of the first traffic over it
 >  TR> waiting to see if it would  turn out to be real or not.
  
 > Roy was an idiot. 

Witt wasn't well-liked by many. I strongly suspect that a large part of
that was his setup was such that none of the `usual suspects' in the North
American Backbone could shut him down.

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

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

 > Given his sudden disappearance from cyberspace, and no obituary
 > having been published, along with his web page having been taken
 > offline, leads me to believe that either his computer died and he
 > decided not to return to cyberlife, or that he gave his computer
 > to the needy and decided not to return to cyberlife.
 
All the same, someone should check on his wellbeing. 
 
 > I lost a computer thanks to Katrina.  I lost another computer
 > thanks to Rita.  Living in an area prone to hurricanes, I takes
 > my chances.  Sometimes my computer lives, sometimes it dies.

 > OTOH, what most probably happened was Bob Klahn upgraded to
 > Windows 10.  And then he got the `Something Else' screen ...

Or he might have just dropped out of Fido. Something I've considered for
quite a while myself.
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