Missing Persons, Whatever happened to... Options

[Phil Stooke]

Starting a new thread - I was wondering about one particular person, once a prominent member... but I thought others might have similar questions so I'm giving this a generic title.

So - whatever happened to Doug van Dorn? He hasn't posted since 2009, and he seems to have disappeared from everywhere else as well, including a blog he started up about that time with a post saying 'this is my first post, it won't be my last' (but it was).

Any news would be appreciated.

Phil

[jasedm]

I assumed that 'oDoug' had had a disagreement with the mods re: forum rules and decided UMSF wasn't for him anymore. He's very passionate/vociferous about NASA funding issues and manned spaceflight, and these subjects are two of the prime 'Thou shalt not's' here. I seem to recall that he found it difficult to keep these issues out of some discussions.
I may be completely wrong on this however!

I rather miss his contributions, and was disappointed his own blog never got off the ground (no pun....etc etc) Hope you're well Doug and have simply switched to lurker-mode

[djellison]

I assumed that 'oDoug' had had a disagreement with the mods re: forum rules and decided UMSF wasn't for him anymore.

To my knowledge, that didn't happen. From what I can tell, he simply stopped visiting all together towards the end of Sept '09. He did get the attention admins over a discussion about the DSN at the time, but was certainly not banned or told to leave, nor did he make any suggestion he was about to leave either.


People come, people go. It happens.