Although I am not sure how, Aaron claims to have confirmed that Lee has
passed. As there are many here who are familiar with him and who might not read the Fido POLITICS echo, here is the info.

This message was from AARON THOMAS to ALL,
originally in conference FI-Politic
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I've noticed a lack of posts from Lee Lofaso lately, so I googled his name and I regret to announce that it looks like he's passed away. :(

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/baton-rouge-la/lee-lofaso-12040963

Let's hope that this is not him, and that it's just some other Lee Lofaso :(


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Hi Mike,
In a message to All you wrote:

name and I regret to announce that it looks like he's passed away.

If it's him, I can remove my twit filter, he was the only true piece of
shit left in fightonet.

Shawn

... And God said: "E = «mvy - Zey/r" ...and there was light!


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Hello Mike!

This message was from AARON THOMAS to ALL, originally in
conference FI-Politic -------------------------

I've noticed a lack of posts from Lee Lofaso lately, so I
googled his name and I regret to announce that it looks
like he's passed away. :(

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/baton-rouge-la/
lee-lofaso-1204 0963

I remember him mentioning his location in baton rouge usa in
some messages a while ago.

Let's hope that this is not him, and that it's just some
other Lee Lofaso :(

So this will dismiss the alter-ego | sock-puppet conspiracy
theory. :|




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name and I regret to announce that it looks like he's passed away.

If it's him, I can remove my twit filter, he was the only true piece of
shit left in fightonet.

The original poster mentioned that he thinks it is him because the obit mentions a few things (like talking politics) that would fit the
description of FIDO Lee.

Mike


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Let's hope that this is not him, and that it's just some
other Lee Lofaso :(

So this will dismiss the alter-ego | sock-puppet conspiracy
theory. :|

Well... I had a slightly different theory. The Lee I originally remembered engaging with on FIDO didn't seem so hard-headed or as likely to jump to
trying to curse (or gross) someone out when they didn't agree with him.

The Lee that started showing up later did all of those things, and in a
manner much like Bjorn does. Much like Bjorn, he would argue with you even
if you were trying to agree with him.

My theory was that the originaly Lee quit posting and at some point his
FIDO identity was assumed by Bjorn. Otherwise, there is no way to
explain how, on two occassions, I received messages with one name in the
FROM field, but which were "written" by the other.

The second of those times was witnessed by others in one of the FIDO sysop echoes and I cannot remember which of them the message header said wrote it.

The first time was in a netmail where the from said "Lee" but the text was
from Bjorn as he referenced being a "Z2 sysop." When I responded asking
"Lee" if he had joined Z2 as a sysop, I never got a response.

Those original interactions I mentioned above were in an echo that had originally been about "weird news" but whose moderator had taken it into
the realm of endtimes discussion. He believed the end was coming soon.
Lee trolled him... as I did... but I don't remember Lee being outright disgusting back then.

When that echo eventually dried up, I didn't see Lee around for a long time until he started posting in the POLITICS echo.


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On 25 Nov 24 10:07:00, Mike Powell said the following to Shawn Highfield:

The original poster mentioned that he thinks it is him because the obit mentions a few things (like talking politics) that would fit the description of FIDO Lee.

Only one thought comes to mind about his alleged death.... "Good riddance".

Now if the Swedish puppet-master would make his grand departure, even better.

Nick

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Hello Mike!

25 Nov 24 10:24, you wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

When that echo eventually dried up, I didn't see Lee around for a long time until he started posting in the POLITICS echo.

Lee Lofaso showed up for the first time in the POLITICS echo back in the early aughts when its moderator at the time banned Bjerk. I think the Swedish meatball simply stole Lee's identity to post in POLITICS because Lee -always- posed from Bjerk's NNTP server.

It matters not now. Soon enough the troublemakers will be gone as they're all dropping dead. It took 30 years of waiting but finally it's happening.

-- Sean


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Hi Sean,
In a message to Mike Powell you wrote:

It matters not now. Soon enough the troublemakers will be gone as
they're all dropping dead. It took 30 years of waiting but finally
it's happening.

My wife happened to look over the other day when I was typing my last
message about this guy. She said "Well he's passed away, shouldn't
you be nice now?" Why would I? He trolled me every time I posted, and generally did his best to send any new people away from fightonet as fast
as he could.

We're all dropping dead, soon it will just be that one d'bridge system
sitting idle in Toronto and Nick will be sitting there with a giant
grin "I won assholes!"

Shawn

... "Mount your horses, men!" "We're not that lonely, sir!"


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The original poster mentioned that he thinks it is him because the obit mentions a few things (like talking politics) that would fit the description of FIDO Lee.

Only one thought comes to mind about his alleged death.... "Good riddance".

Now if the Swedish puppet-master would make his grand departure, even better.

The Lee that passed was only in his 60s. I have felt recently that Lee and Bjorn were hoping to outlive FIDO, which is why they act like they do...
trying to kill it off. Guess one of them didn't make it.

Mike


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Lee Lofaso showed up for the first time in the POLITICS echo back in the early
aughts when its moderator at the time banned Bjerk. I think the Swedish meatball simply stole Lee's identity to post in POLITICS because Lee -always- posed from Bjerk's NNTP server.

Until near the end, when someone pointed that out to Lee. He found another
Z2 system (I think in Finland) that would let him post via NNTP... unless
that was another system run by Bjorn.

It matters not now. Soon enough the troublemakers will be gone as they're all dropping dead. It took 30 years of waiting but finally it's happening.

Yeah, on the one hand I feel bad about someone being gone but "Lee" seemed to make a point of being a jerk, even at times when you were trying to agree
with him. Much like Bjorn.

Mike

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