Re: RIP Wombat: Joan Eslinger, 1959-2008

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:31:09 GMT, Bill Higgins <higgins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>I really can't write an adequate account right now.  I met her through 
>Champaign-Urbana fandom in Illinois and the General Technics crowd. 
>Eventually she moved to Silicon Valley where she worked hacking Unix for
a 
>couple of decades.  She was active on Usenet and other online forums as 
>early as the mid-1980s.  Her address always included "Wombat;" in some 
>places she wasn't known by any other name.

I'm always sorry to hear about the deaths of good people, and doubly
so for the deaths of good wombats. My sympathies. 

-- 
Kevin J. Maroney | kjm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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