[6]                    A Loss for Netizens

[Editor's note: The following e-mail message was posted to the
Netizens mailing list at the end of Jan 2000. Kerry Miller
contributed often to discussions and debates on the Internet and
fought for the spread of the Net and its value.]

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 22:42:43 -0500 (EST)
From: ronda@panix.com
Subject: [netz] About a Loss for Netizens 

   On Friday night, January 28, 2000, the Netizens mailing list
administrator received a very sad message. The message asked him to
take Kerry Miller's e-mail address off the mailing list because Kerry
had died on January 18.
   After asking another mailing list administrator if he knew any
further details, we were told that Kerry had indeed died on January
18, of a heart attack after shoveling snow. He was 75 years old.
   Kerry Miller has been an important contributor to the Netizens
mailing list almost since it began. He posted regularly and
encouraged others to post by commenting on their posts.
   I remember Kerry's first e-mail to me several years ago. I told
him about the Netizens mailing list. He soon joined and participated
actively and often.
   One time Kerry signed off the mailing list. I wrote him shortly
afterwards asking how everything was and telling him about some of the
new Internet problems that the Netizens mailing list was concerned
with at the time. Kerry resubscribed and contributed again helping to
make it possible to have a Netizen challenge to that particular
problem confronting the Internet.
   I didn't know anything about Kerry's life until after hearing he
died. I then learned from the moderator of the other mailing list
that though he had never met Kerry, he had hoped to meet him several
times. That Kerry had moved from Kansas in the U.S. to Canada to
marry someone he had met on another mailing list.
   I will miss Kerry very much. The Netizens mailing list is the
poorer for this loss. I hope others will share any thoughts they have
about Kerry and that we will all make an effort to contribute a bit
extra to make up for the fact that the Netizens mailing list and the
Internet have lost one of their important contributors.

Ronda

Reprinted from Netizens Association Discussion List Digest February
20, 2000, Volume 01 : Number 354
http://umcc.ais.org/~jrh/netizens/digest/Digest_1-354.txt

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