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I think most of the people he managed to drive off over the years won't miss him at all.

(Yea I went there, deal with it)

you got a point there..

ssion

RHC: No I don't think he has at all !!

You know, it's a funny thing sometimes how you can make all sorts of assumptions about a person, even ones that might seem valid because of sometimes obnoxious behaviour on a virtual newsgroup, yet you never really know a man until you "walk a mile in his shoes". RLB pissed a lot of people off at times; but from my vantage point, he was more than usually right when he made a point about something relative to security matters. Maybe you didn't like his politics - that's your business, but he also likely didn't like yours in return. He and I disagreed about a lot of things as well but for some reason over the

12 or so years we shared this newsgroup, it never dropped even close to the level of personal insults. When you give respect, you generally get it in return.

I don't know Bob all that well; however, I have visited his home, met his parents when they were still alive, ridden motorcycles with him, eaten lunch with him, walked the beach with him and spent many hours talking about our mutual values in life. I'm a pretty good judge of character and I can say with absolute certainty that he is a good and generous person in life. He's made a few mistakes in life, but he's learned from them, and gone forward (and who here is any different from him in that regard....). If you choose to judge him solely on the persona on this newsgroup then you are making a huge mistake (if that matters to you). Personally, I count him as a friend, and if we lived closer together, we would be more so.

When my time comes, I can only hope that I go out with as much forgiveness and dignity as he has shown over the last many months.

Tell that to the family of the woman he killed, and to the guys of some aviation group, and I am sure they will want o make a group hug....NOT..

cussion

Had he kept it to security matters it might have been different although I seemed to recall years of him bashing people here as well as the entire security industry just to sell product.

True but I don't recall ever starting new threads in a security forum based on my political views

The key word there is "generally" as in "not always".

Notice how nice and quiet it is now that he's gone mostly because he drove everyone away, that's his legacy

does that mean it's now safe to remove all the blocks from my news readers filter?

RTS

Since he hasn't posted anything meaningful in a couple of months I'd say so

Are you guys saying Robert has passed on?

Nope, we are saying that he doesnt post his stuff anymore.. so its ok to remove blocks..

RHC: Crash, RLB is in serious condition and an educated guess would be that he will not be with us too much longer.