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

[David Kramer]

We can start up the BLU Retirement Home for Antisocial Geeks.

I'll start working on the website :)

On 02/08/2015 07:00 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 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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