On Sun, 28 Aug 2016, Robert Green wrote:

I'm waiting for a response from a known friend of his.

Thanks for that effort.

I gather you saw my post with the details, and the lack of a response.

The point still is how many people that we chat
with regularly could just disappear (and probably have) without anyone
knowing what happened to them? Had he died at home, I don't think we would
have known because it wouldn't have made the newspaper.

Correct. Though in some groups, e.g. rec.food.cooking, many have also
become friends outside the group, and some deaths are known and reported. I
don't remember now how we found out that Robert L. Bass in
comp.home.automation died.

I was once a police reporter. Three days of him lying on the roof in the
hot summer isn't going to be a very pretty sight as birds come very quickly.
I scrapped with Stormy often, but I wouldn't wish that sort of death on
anyone.

I wasn't thinking of the birds. Ugh.

Don. www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).