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From: frisbie@flying-disk.com (Alan Frisbie)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: DECUS and E-Mail
Message-ID: <11162@flying-disk.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 11:02:31 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.195334.15166@news.arc.nasa.gov>, 
mcmahon@tgv.com (John 'Fast-Eddie' McMahon) writes:

> DECUServe is on the network thanks to the VMSnet working group.  The
> address is  USERNAME@eisner.decus.org.  Someday, I hope to discover who
> "eisner" was.

Dan Lee Eisner was one of the founders of DECUServe, Chair of the RSX SIG,
and one of the best people it has been my priviledge to know.   His death
from cancer in 1987 deprived DECUS of one of its most outstanding leaders.

Dan had an ability to take multiple feuding people and produce a friendly
agreement.   His services as a peacemaker are sorely missed.

Today, we take DECUServe for granted.   However, when Dan and the other
pioneers proposed it to DECUS leadership, it was a hard sell.   Many
people did not want it to happen, and some tried their best to make it
fail.   Dan worked very hard, right up until his death, to make it a
success.   Naming the DECUServe system "EISNER" is a monument not only
to a man, but to the kind of person DECUS needs more of.

His successes went beyond DECUS politics.   In early 1987 when DECUServe
was just getting off the ground, Dan asked me to be a moderator.   One
of the other moderators was a woman I did not get along with at all.
If she and I had to be in the same room, you could practically see the
icicles form in the air.

Dan encouraged me to communicate and cooperate with her, in the interests
of DECUServe.   He succeeded far beyond his wildest dreams (I think).   
On September 3rd, 1988, I married her.

Dan Eisner was my friend and I miss him.      Requiescat In Pace.

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