[PLUG] RIP: Michael Rasmussen

[Russell Senior]

On 6/8/25 16:46, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2025, Russell Senior wrote:
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> RIP. I liked Michael. We met at a couple PLUG meetings, but mostly we 
> corresponded via e-mail. I think he was the first person who worked 
> for a huge corporation (US Bank) with whom I ever discussed IT issues. 
> I was working for OGI at the time, and I remember being startled to 
> find that someone might be a member of an entire group whose main 
> responsibility (at that time) was DHCP and DNS. I mean, we just kept 
> those records in version control and updated them as necessary; it was 
> a tiny part of our job. It dawned on me that I knew very little about 
> IT in the larger world.
>
I just started pawing through my PLUG mailing list archive, which starts 
circa 2000, and the first message I have from him is from his work email 
at Columbia Funds, and it's a reply to Paul. I don't think he moved to 
US Bank for a few years after that. The last email in my archive from 
him with columbiafunds.com domain is September 2002.

I think the last time I talked to him in person was when I broke his 
network at 6:30 in the morning during a firmware upgrade, just this last 
November. I drove down to his house to fix it.

-- 
Russell Senior
PLUG Volunteer
russell at pdxlinux.org