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:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:47 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Bill Beatty's phone disconnected
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:45 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> 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
;-)
