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The End of a Site and of a Tragicomedy? Was: Wax Museum of Illegal Stamps
"Mette" wrote in message
... On 19th December I received a telephone call from Annelise Smith, John Smith's wife, with the sad news that John had passed away as the result of a heart failure, only 51 years old. John leaves his wife, Annelise, 2 children and 3 grandchildren behind. Mrs. Smith has advised me that since she does not wish to continue John's websites, including "Wax Museum of Illegal Stamps", they have been taken down by his estate. John was the son of Mrs. Marie Smith, who died about 4 years ago, and who was an ardent art stamp collector with focus on Chinese arts. John's friendship, kindness, and helpfulness will be remembered fondly by all who knew him. -- Ann Mette Heindorff (Mette) Was the 19th of December 2003 a really sad day for all those who collect the small pieces of paper usually known as postal stamps? And also for those who tried to fight, by using their limited means, against the flood of illegal stamps? Maybe it was, or maybe it wasn't, and this for the simple reason that it is possible to prove that somebody exists (or existed), but much more difficult to prove the contrary. For those who aren't familiar with the subject, Mr. John Smith and "his" site were announced as follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ann Mette Heindorff ) Subject: Museum of Illegal Stamps Newsgroups: rec.collecting.stamps.discuss Date: 2002-07-02 15:10:32 PST ....As I do not have the time to fight both the illegal stamps and a private philatelic organisation acting in the name (and perhaps also on behalf !) of UPU I have accepted his offer, so the museum is no longer in my hands and therefore not located at it's previously announced address. The new URL will be made known through the search engines. Any further questions should be sent to Mr. John Smith, , who will fight the illegals instead of me... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Just to remind you that the problem with this site has been that it has displayed *images* of illegal stamps, this contrary to the explicit recommendations of the UPU to publish only their descriptions (as presented by the UPU Circulars). Because Mr. John Smith (an US citizen established in Denmark) wasn't previously known as a stamp collector and as a philatelic webmaster (and he could never be "seen" since the appearance of the above announcement), because of his too commonplace name, and because of his suddenly revealed skill in philatelic webmastering, some skepticism has permanently persisted in what concerned his existence. I ask for forgiveness his wife, Annelise, his 2 children and the 3 grandchildren left behind if I'm wrong with my doubts, and I sincerely regret if the *webmaster* John Smith really died being only 51 years old. It is only one person in the world, the author of the posting cited above, who can help us to establish the real identity of this mysterious webmaster but, finally, I wonder who does really care about. All of us will surely miss the integrality of "John's websites" (just try to find them on the Web), so R.I.P. John Smith, the most modest of all webmasters Victor Manta --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Illegal Stamps: http://www.pwmo.org/Illegals/frame-illegals-en.htm Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org Spanish Africa: http://www.values.ch/sna-site/ Remove "um" from the e-mail address to reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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