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Re: comp.risks -- PGN died a few months ago

From Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: comp.risks -- PGN died a few months ago
Date 2026-06-17 02:57 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <110t2fi$1ijv4$5@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <XnsB46D646AD4359hueydlltampabayrrcom@157.180.91.226>

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On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:52:24 -0000 (UTC), David LaRue wrote:

> I went to Peter's Risks Site this morning to see why the feed seems
> to have stopped. The site mentions that he died a few months ago.

Surprised and dismayed to learn that.

> He was a long standing source of documented problems to avoid making
> since before email as we know it today was standardized. No industry
> was spared.

That he was. I remember several incidents well.

His Y2K coverage was, shall we say, a bit more even-handed than some
others ...

> Forgive me if this has been posted already.

News to me, anyway.

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comp.risks -- PGN died a few months ago David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> - 2026-06-16 13:52 +0000
  Re: comp.risks -- PGN died a few months ago scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-06-16 14:54 +0000
    Re: comp.risks -- PGN died a few months ago Ian <${send-direct-email-to-news1021-at-jusme-dot-com-if-you-must}@jusme.com> - 2026-06-16 17:01 +0000
  Re: comp.risks -- PGN died a few months ago Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-17 02:57 +0000
  Re: comp.risks -- PGN died a few months ago David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2026-08-26 23:09 +0000

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