[BALUG-Talk] Larry Platzek - contact update? [BALUG-Admin] Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (larryp@inow.com)

[Michael Paoli]

[Bcc: Dick Verna]
Anyone have updated/current contact information for
Larry Platzek ?

Hope all is well.

> From: "Rick Moen" <rick@linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [BALUG-Admin] Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning  
> message to sender	(larryp@inow.com)
> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 14:18:18 -0700

> Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
>
>> Dropping larryp@inow.com from the forwarding aliases.
>> inow.com has two NS, neither of which function.
>>
>> Let me know if/when I should add it back.
>
> For those who don't know or have forgotten, that's Larry Platzek,
> longtime member of the Linux community.  A very long time ago
> (2005-ish), after founders Art Tyde and David Sifry bowed out of BALUG,
> Larry Platzek and Dick Verna ran BALUG (including primary listadmin
> duty) and coordinated the meetings at Four Seas Restaurant in
> Chinatown's upstairs banquet room.
>
> I think he's been living in the South Bay lately, but wouldn't swear to
> it.  My efforts to find current contact information are coming up dry.
>
> Lessons to learn:
>
> 1.  Don't register your domains at GoDaddy.  ;->
> 2.  Make sure your whois data gives meaningful out-of-band contact
>     methods.
> 3.  If you have only two authoritative nameservers, shoot your
>     admins and get some who understand the RFCs and how to administer
>     DNS.
>
> It might be worth asking on balug-talk if anyone has a telephone number
> or alternate e-mail address for Larry.
>
> If only because, y'know, we're all mortal, and I worry when people just
> seem to vanish.