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<div>Responding to Ron Wolff <wolff@ieor.berkeley.edu></div>
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<div>New news:<font face="Verdana Bold" size="+1" color="#593E82">
Barry G[ordon] Smith</font></div>
<div><font face="Georgia" size="-2" color="#000000"><i>date of birth
September 1 1953</i><br>
<i>date of death October 8 2012</i></font><br>
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<div><font face="Georgia" size="-2" color="#000000">Barry Gordon Smith
passed away on October 8, 2012 in Portland. </font></div>
<div><font face="Georgia" size="-2" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Georgia" size="-2" color="#000000">Married Mity
Allegra De Fossati 26 July 1999. She was born 13 August 1941.<br>
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<div>Ron,</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>So you or someone else received e-mail
from Barry Smith's widow?</blockquote>
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<div>I did. She was irate that I had learned and written to her
"private" email address---which is the one listed when the
Blue Sky domain (and others) was (re)-registered in Oct.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Would it be an imposition to ask her to
supply again the links to the automatic service to supply the Textures
installation key?</blockquote>
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<div>I did ask her but so far no further response. I doubt that she
would respond positively to another email to her "private"
address.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Explain that the Blue Sky web site is now
gone</blockquote>
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<div>She knows that and does not seem at all motivated to get it back
up. She is 71 years old and loves roses...</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>and that this information would be made
available (at least for a while) to the Textures e-mail list.<br>
<br>
That service will be gone at some point too. Is there a way to get the
key itself?</blockquote>
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<div>I wish!!!</div>
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<div>I am hoping that someone on this list got that info during
whatever short interval the information was up on the Blue Sky
site.</div>
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<div>I have been unable to locate the main person who used to be
behind help@bluesky.com,<b> Gordon Lee</b> [not the one in Portland
who is a pianist]. I suspect he would be the person in the best
position to help. Maybe someone else on the list can locate him and
get in contact.</div>
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<div>http://www.whitepages.com/name/Gordon-Lee/Portland-Oregon</div>
<div>gives 6 people in Portland with that name and different middle
initials (two with none), with (under "See full listing")
phone numbers for a couple of them. I haven't tried them yet. Intelius
eliminates Gordon J Lee (M.D.) but adds a couple more. LinkedIn shows
lots of Gordon Lee but none near Portland (except the musician). I
don't belong to any pay-for-info organziation and am not on FaceBook
or Twitter---maybe someone can try there. The phone number given at
Web registration sites for contacting him (555-555-5555) is blatantly
phony. Of course, he may no longer be in the Portland area.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>The existence of this list attests to the
fact that Textures did some things very well, compared with
alternatives, in spite of being outdated in many ways.<br>
This is a plea that someone rescue the good things in
Textures.</blockquote>
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Right.<br>
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Ron</blockquote>
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<div>Ron,</div>
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<div>Any idea why I don't see in my incoming the msg I sent to the
Textures list? I got a msg for a few days that that msg was delayed,
but you seem to have gotten it.</div>
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<div>The list page seems to be down, too.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Paul</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>On 4/15/13 12:49 PM, Paul J. Campbell
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><tt>Today, from widow of Barry Smith, the
creator of Blue Sky Textures:<br>
</tt>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><tt>The website for Blue Sky suffered a
catastrophic crash at the servers level, and that is the reason why it
has been unavailable. Unfortunately since my husband died recently
neither have I had the time nor the needed strength to attend to all
that is requested of me. ... After Barry died I had a page placed on
the portal explaining the circumstances, and left several links to the
automatic service that would have renewed the keys making absolutely
certain that everyone understood that would not be any further
upgrades to Textures ...</tt><br>
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Does anyone have that info about the keys? (I could use it to bring my
Textures back to life after HD crash.) The Wayback Machine did not
crawl that page while it was up.<br>
</tt>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><tt>...the person who created Textures
and all of its upgrades is dead, and I have no one to help me find out
answers until the original website can be restored, if ever.<br>
<br>
So perhaps your question " So will I have to (finally) transition
to TeXShop?" has a self contained answer within.</tt><br>
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Textures mailing list</tt></blockquote>
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>Textures@email.esm.psu.edu</tt></a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><tt>List Page:</tt> <a
href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/textures"><tt
>http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/textures</tt></a></blockquote
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-3" color="#000000">Paul J.
Campbell</font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" size="-3" color="#000000">Mathematics and
Computer Science<br>
Beloit College<br>
700 College St.<br>
Beloit, WI 53511-5595<br>
USA</font><br>
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-3" color="#000000">ofc:
send email instead</font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" size="-3" color="#000000">fax: (608)
363-2052<br>
res: (608) 362-2805</font></div>
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