[BLU/Officers] Fwd: [Discuss] Hoping BLU will help me

[Jerry Feldman]

We could put him on moderation.

On 02/07/2015 01:54 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
> TWIMC,
>
> I called the managed-care facility where Mr. Howe resides, and I was
> referred to his daughter by the staff there.
>
> I just got off the phone with her, and she told me that her father has
> dementia, and that there is nothing we can do to help him. She said
> that he has probably worn out his welcome at the Northern Virginia
> LUG, and that he was warned to limit the scope and number of his posts
> there, several times.
>
> I informed her that there are special-purpose services available which
> can screen her father's emails before they are sent, and asked that
> she contact her dad's gerontologist for details.
>
> As to the BLU, when she asked what we would do, I told her that I
> would recommend that her father's email be removed from our mailing list.
>
> Bill Horne
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[Discuss] Hoping BLU will help me
> Date: 	Sat, 7 Feb 2015 11:21:25 -0500
> From: 	cmhowe at patriot.net
> To: 	discuss at blu.org
>
>
>
> BLU list,
>
> I'm a first-time poster. I live in the NOVALUG area, but, so far, they
> haven't been able to get close to my problem, I should say that I am not a
> programmer. I am a user. I am trying to get something done that I regard
> as being of immense importance. If you want to hear about it contact me
> off-list.
>
> I want for my system to be back to what it was when disaster hit on 24 Jan
> 2014, Ubuntu 12-04 LTS. I am an od guy, bday April 27, 1926. I am a long
> retired theoretical physicist. Not a good one, but it enables me to
> realize what can be done, what can't be done and, all too frequently, to
> realize that someone is on the wrong track.
>
> I live, with my wife, in an assisted living facility, Emeritus Manassas,
> zip code 20109. Can I expect any comments, thoughts, etc, when I get back
> from Lunch. First contact by email first. I am very much
> mobility-impaired.
>
> Fwiw, I have ties in the Boston area. My brother about twenty months older
> than me, died several years ago. Two nephews also live there. one, Peter
> Howe, does a broadcast ever weekday night on the NEBN. I never wanted to
> live there. Too cold.
>
> My full name is Charles M Howe. Call me
>
> Charlie
>
>
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