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Obituary = Scott Samet
by Hector Santos, 1:135/382

[Editor's Note: Due to an attempt to hack into my E-Mail account by persons as yet unknown, the message originally sent by Andrea Santos was lost in the destruction, along with several non-FidoNews articles and messages. With apologies to all involved, I have elected to post a copy of Hector Santos' announcement made in several echoes. -zf-]

People,

Scott Samet , the author of one of the more popular FIDONET utilities called XLAXNODE.EXE and XLAXDIFF.EXE, has went to the better world.

As you properly aware in some form or fashion, Scott was one of the original Fidonet developers (old address 1:135/990). His Fidonet nodelist compiler was one of the original "hall mark" and "backbone" utilities that gave Fidonet one of its early "growth sparks" during the 80s. Nearly every early know Frontend Mailer and/or Mail Echo Processor worked with the Nodelist Databases produced by Scott's utility.

I first met Scott in 1984 when I first joined Fidonet. I purchased his nodelist compiler for $15.00, like most of the young Fidonet members did. When I started to write Silver Xpress, the first Fidonet Offline Mail System, I added support for the compiled nodelist and Scott helped by adding support for some my new ideas. Scott added support for the Silver Xpress compiled nodelist to XLAXNODE.EXE in subsequent updates. That fact he was an enthusiastic Borland Pascal user and software developer like I was, our "Cyber" relationship was even better. With his expert knowledge of Pascal, he helped me add some advance techniques to Silver Xpress.

In October 1987, Scott left Fidonet but thousands of people around the globe, till this very day, continued to use his XLAXNODE nodelist utilities.

As an original "hall mark" Fidonet Developer, all members of Fidonet deserves the attention of this news. Zorch Forsberg (FidoNews Editor) has been contacted, and Andrea Santos (1:3135/382) has informed our Net 135 members of the sad news.

God Bless Scott

PS: Thank you Borland for posting this information.

-------- Forwarded Message ---------
Original: DATE..... 03 Aug 1998, 12:59p
Original: FROM..... LORIE HULL <LHULL@INPRISE.COM>
Original: TO....... ALL
Original: SUBJECT.. A sad announcement
Original: FORUM.... borland.public.delphi.non-technical
Original: NETWORK.. BORLAND ECHO: BI_NONTECH

From: Lorie Hull <lhull@inprise.com>
Organization: Inprise Corp
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Scott Samet, a member of TeamB and an active participant in this online community, died last week in his home town of Miami, Florida.

Scott was a member of TeamB for three years. He loved being part of TeamB, enjoyed Delphi, and the online community. He loved travel, good food, and teaching his nephews about off-color jokes and belching. Scott had a finely honed sense of humor, and was always ready with a wry remark or pithy comment. Scott was never one to heed traditions, social conventions or fashion rules. He had a large and diverse group of friends who will miss him greatly, as will his family and colleagues.

Scott was, most definitely, an interesting fellow. I am honored to have known him. He will be missed.

--
- lorie

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Hector Santos

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