In article <20010428211051.E15940@beverly.kleinbus.org>,
Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org> wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:34:01PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
>> 
>>   A friend says that the original author of ping(8) got killed in a car
>> accident (slashdot content apparently).  Should we put a requiem in the
>> man page?
>
>That's, apparently, true, but happened half a year ago (2000 Nov. 20).
>See links below for some Web reports.
>
>A one sentence note would be ok, I think; something like this?
>
>AUTHOR
>	Mike Muuss died in a car accident 2000-Nov-20. 
>

Sure, send it to vjs too.

christos