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. 

Regards,
	-is