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history:memorial [2025/03/16 15:24] – [Ruben Figueroa] nelginhistory:memorial [2025/03/20 13:32] (current) – Mention Mark "Sparky" Herring's passing here (QWK creator). digital man
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 Original developer of [[http://www.thefullwiki.org/Opus-CBCS|Opus-CBCS]] and contributor to important BBS standards, like FOSSIL ([[http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/OPUS/opushist.html|history]]). Original developer of [[http://www.thefullwiki.org/Opus-CBCS|Opus-CBCS]] and contributor to important BBS standards, like FOSSIL ([[http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/OPUS/opushist.html|history]]).
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 +===== Mark "Sparky" Herring =====
 +Mark Herring, contributor to PCBEcho, author of QMail and creator the QWK packet format died in April 2020 [[https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/qwk_swatting_death/|as the result of a fake-swatting incident over his @Tennessee Twitter handle]].
  
 ===== Mike Woltz ===== ===== Mike Woltz =====
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 Long time Fidonet sysop and past Z1C passed away on October 21, 2024 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. Long time Fidonet sysop and past Z1C passed away on October 21, 2024 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.
 [[https://www.perkinsfh.com/obituary/Janis-Kracht|Obituary]] [[https://www.perkinsfh.com/obituary/Janis-Kracht|Obituary]]
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 ===== John Friel III ===== ===== John Friel III =====
 [[wp>Qmodem]] author and Mustang Software employee [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551900|died December, 2024]]. [[wp>Qmodem]] author and Mustang Software employee [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551900|died December, 2024]].
  
 ===== Ruben Figueroa ===== ===== Ruben Figueroa =====
-While not a huge player in the Fido world, Ruben has been running this Prison BBS on a variety of platforms, often concurrently, since at least 1994 and was NC of Net 124 in Region 19. Ruben, who went by the name of Zazz. was 73. +SysOp of Prison BBS. Ran multiple bbses on a variety of platforms(Synchronet/Mystic/Wildcat!). NC of Net 124 in Region 19. Used the handle "Zazz". Ruben passed away on January 27, 2025 at the age of 73. 
- +[[https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/mesquite-tx/ruben-figueroa-12222109|Obituary]]
-https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/mesquite-tx/ruben-figueroa-12222109+
  
 ===== Brian “Hawk” Hubbard ===== ===== Brian “Hawk” Hubbard =====

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