RE: [Vo]:Bill Beatty's phone disconnected

2013-01-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax 

At 10:51 PM 1/3/2013, MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote:

That must have been his father?


No. The obit lists children. Not him (wrong age and location) and not 
his father (no Bill as a child).


The most worrisome thing here is the disconnected phone (-3320) that 
is given for list contact. I expect we will likely find out tomorrow, 
unless offices are closed. I just noticed that the original list mail 
had a different number (-0775). I haven't checked that one. And it's 
too late. There may be some perfectly innocuous explanation. Let's hope so.


However, we aren't screwed if something has happened to Bill. Just 
sad. Most of the active subscribers for the last few years can be 
contacted directly, and as long as the list is running, we can 
contact everyone who remains subscribed. We would merely have to 
prepare for the inevitable, unless there have been provisions made. 
Sometimes there are. The archives that Bill was maintaining for old 
stuff, if they still work (at least one did not) would have to be 
captured and moved. The web archive will likely remain, though it's 
always a good idea to back those up, when possible.


I've seen major providers go south, with all the mailing lists and 
archives, years of work, gone in a flash.




From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:47 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Bill Beatty's phone disconnected


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:45 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint 
<<mailto:zeropo...@charter.net>zeropo...@charter.net> wrote:

I just left him a voice msg as well... let's hope he's ok and will respond
to one of us soon.

We're screwed:

<http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=William-Beaty&lc=2482&pid=150615670&mid=4651051>http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=William-Beaty&lc=2482&pid=150615670&mid=4651051

;-)

Re: [Vo]:Bill Beatty's phone disconnected

2013-01-03 Thread Terry Blanton 
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax 
wrote:


> Not him, for sure.

Re: [Vo]:Bill Beatty's phone disconnected

2013-01-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax 

At 10:47 PM 1/3/2013, Terry Blanton wrote:
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:45 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint 
<zeropo...@charter.net> wrote:

I just left him a voice msg as well... let's hope he's ok and will respond
to one of us soon.


We're screwed:

http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=William-Beaty&lc=2482&pid=150615670&mid=4651051

;-)


Not him, for sure. There was a Bill Beatty who died in Seattle, but 
that was a few years ago. Bill is in his fifities, or maybe the page 
is out of date and he's in his sixties. Being 68, I'm quite aware 
that people can abruptly disappear. Sometimes things just get away 
from me and I don't respond to email for weeks. Happens, easily.

RE: [Vo]:Bill Beatty's phone disconnected

2013-01-03 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint 
That must have been his father?

 

From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:47 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Bill Beatty's phone disconnected

 

 

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:45 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint 
wrote:

I just left him a voice msg as well... let's hope he's ok and will respond
to one of us soon.

 

We're screwed:

 

http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=William-Be
aty
<http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=William-B
eaty&lc=2482&pid=150615670&mid=4651051> &lc=2482&pid=150615670&mid=4651051

 

;-)

Re: [Vo]:Bill Beatty's phone disconnected

2013-01-03 Thread Terry Blanton 
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:45 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote:

> I just left him a voice msg as well... let's hope he's ok and will respond
> to one of us soon.
>
>
We're screwed:

http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=William-Beaty&lc=2482&pid=150615670&mid=4651051

;-)

RE: [Vo]:Bill Beatty's phone disconnected

2013-01-03 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint 
I just left him a voice msg as well... let's hope he's ok and will respond
to one of us soon.

-Original Message-
From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:37 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: [Vo]:Bill Beatty's phone disconnected

The other day I phoned Bill Beatty's number, the one given in the welcome
message. The voicemail was operating and I left a message. He did not call
back.

I just called it again. The number has been disconnected.

I found another number for him, -3818, called it, got his voice mail, left a
message, saying we are worried about him.

There are more phone numbers that can be called during business hours to
find out if he's okay. I will report what I find.

Several people who might be concerned may have put me in a kill-file, so
someone else might repeat what I've posted without my name (Or like A.B.D.)
which would normally bypass a killfile.