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

[Jerry Feldman]

Maybe we can take up a collection and send Rocky down to Virginia :-)

On 02/08/2015 06:57 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 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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