asterisk users - Dec 2006 - Asterisk Community lost a valuable contributor today

I want to inform the community that last night one of our valuable
contributors and long-time community members, Rich Adamson, passed away
after a long battle with cancer.

Rich spent many, many hours sharing his valuable telecom and
transmission systems experience with everyone who could benefit from it;
he helped countless people solve audio quality and echo problems with
their analog lines when others had given up trying to help. He also
spent many hours helping those of us who work on Asterisk, Zaptel and
Digium hardware improve our products by providing valuable feedback and
testing our changes.

We want to express our deepest sympathies to Rich's family and thank
them for allowing Rich to spend much of his limited time with us. He
will be missed by everyone who had the pleasure of knowing him.