Mette passed away last night.
Toke Nørby
sad news that Mette passed away last night. She lost the fight against
a lung cancer.
May she rest in peace.
Mvh Toke
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Tony Vella
I shall miss you, dear Mette. God love you.
Tony Vella, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Blair
Thank You for letting us know, Toke.
It is sad news, but at least her suffering has ended.
I think that we shall all miss her here.
Blair
bc92
> At 4 pm today Ann Mette Heindorff's step daughter phoned me with the
> sad news that Mette passed away last night. She lost the fight against
> a lung cancer.
So sad. I will be missing such a good person.
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Que j'avais de si près tenus...
Et tant aimés ? Ils ont été trop clair semés,
Je crois le vent les a ôtés. L'amour est morte.
Bruno
Victor Manta
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> At 4 pm today Ann Mette Heindorff's step daughter phoned me with the
> sad news that Mette passed away last night. She lost the fight against
> a lung cancer.
A very sad news. RIP.
Fortunately, she left to us her great Slania site, one that will always
remind us of our friend Mette:
http://www.slaniastamps-heindorffhus.com/index.html
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Toke Nørby
>A very sad news. RIP.
>
>Fortunately, she left to us her great Slania site, one that will always
>remind us of our friend Mette:
>
>http://www.slaniastamps-heindorffhus.com/index.html
Mette was my good friend through 10 years. Strange enough I have never
met her even she was a member of my stamp club in Jutland. She lived
on Seeland.
Many of her web-pages have been "removed" (due to lack of payment to
the provider?) but one can still enjoy most of her great pages here:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.heindorffhus.dk
Ralphael1
> A wonderful human being; a very caring friend.
> I shall miss you, dear Mette. God love you.
> Tony Vella, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
>
simlple. My feelings exactly.
Ralphael, the OLD one
Gerhard Reichert
Thank You for the information Toke. Not only I awaited it, but of course
I hoped she would defeat the cancer. It is a little bit strange how
close people can come to me, though I never met them. Mette made me
always smile because she never used a bad word, always trying to write
kind to everyone here. It was always a fine feeling to read her words.
So she will always have a warm place in my heart and I am sure, I will
remember her name for a long time.
My kindest words are for her husband now.
Let us feel, how I think it is the best way to handle it:
not being sad that she left us, but being very, very happy that she
shared our way for a long time.
Bye Mette, You will always have a place here to stay with us.
Gerhard
rodney
A fabulous lady, master of the short story in stamps,
web page designer extraordinaire,
Organiser of stamp clubs for kids,
One of those rare animals we were privileged to meet, the passionate female
stamp collector.
Whatever she touched became interesting,
and her essays a pleasant sojourn.
She will be sorely missed.
"Toke Nørby" <Toke....@Norbyhus.dk> wrote in message
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John Tollan
find the kind word and the helpful phrase.
She was a rare creature indeed, and we are the richer for having had her
as a partner on rcsd.
I pray that she will now enjoy the fullness of life!
John Tollan
--
(remove "notme" and "jack")
Rein
A terrible news you bring. I will miss the warm and kind words of Mette
and her interesting thoughts. Can you bring over my condolences to her
family?
She will be remembered in her websites, but as you pointed out they are at
great risk of being removed forever. Is there a way of storing it
somewhere else? Of course if her husband agrees...
groetjes, Rein
Op Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:28:10 +0200 schreef Toke Nørby
<Toke....@Norbyhus.dk>:
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family.
Tony Mac Gillycuddy
jerrybem...@yahoo.com
person and she will be missed by all her friends here.
My condolences to Mette's family.
Jerry B
Peter Baumann
Mette du skal aldrig blive glemt!
Peter
--
No Gates - no Bill!
Droger Jean-Paul
> At 4 pm today Ann Mette Heindorff's step daughter phoned me with the
> sad news that Mette passed away last night. She lost the fight against
> a lung cancer.
>
> May she rest in peace.
> Mvh Toke
This is a very bad news, I write it also on French forum frp where she
wrote sometimes very kindly; yes cancer is a very terrible illness, and
some times it win the fight!!
I will be missing such a good person
JP
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wanadoo; to send me directly a mail replace anti with droger and manama
with wanadoo;
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Stan Fairchild
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> sad news that Mette passed away last night. She lost the fight against
> a lung cancer.
>
As many have commented, Mette was a fine person and very constructive.
A couple of years ago she and I agreed to work together to avoid having
great exhibits lost to philately when the owners died and collections were
sold off in pieces. We discovered that there already were two solutions in
place, so we declared victory in our effort and went on to other things.
I'm not sure that Mette's web site material qualifies for Exponet, but
someone who knows the family might see if the survivors would be willing to
have Exponet display the material and see if Exponet would be interested.
The second solution was that some of the major national stamp societies have
archival libraries. At least one is very willing to archive CDs of exhibits
for historical purposes, although I've not asked if they would do it for
non-members. In the case of archival libraries, I doubt that the originator
would have to be a member of the society. And while not an exhibit in the
traditional sense, I'd think Mette's site material would qualify for library
space.
Stan
rodney
Here, here, Stan.
Bravo to you.
As a beginner, I found her work inspirational and absorbing.
It gave me licence to collect whatever I wanted,
and to stray from the beaten track.
I hope one day the archive problem of hers is solved.
"Stan Fairchild"
Victor Manta
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>
> I'm not sure that Mette's web site material qualifies for Exponet, but
> someone who knows the family might see if the survivors would be willing
> to have Exponet display the material and see if Exponet would be
> interested. The second solution was that some of the major national stamp
> societies have archival libraries. At least one is very willing to
> archive CDs of exhibits for historical purposes, although I've not asked
> if they would do it for non-members. In the case of archival libraries, I
> doubt that the originator would have to be a member of the society. And
> while not an exhibit in the traditional sense, I'd think Mette's site
> material would qualify for library space.
Exponet displays a kind of album pages, as images. It is not what Mette did
with her sites.
An archive of CDs is what it is, just an archive, and not a live site on the
Internet.
The best, IMHO, is to bring all her sites back to the Web. Thanks to some
help that I got from a RCSD participant, I'm trying now to clear up the
things. Will post here the results later, if/when I have any.
--
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Toke Nørby
...snip
>May I suggest that you or someone with "SiteGrabber" archive her pages,
>"just in case".
I'll try to pass all your kind words and thoughts to Mette's husband -
even I don't think he is on-line - but snail mail can still be used in
Denmark - I think!
I know that Mette has taken care of her husband for some years. She
once told me that he has some kind of handicap (what it is I don't
know).
I think that more people at the moment are visiting the
www.archive.org to save Mette's pages - as you say - just in case.
In 2008 Mette asked the Danish Motif Society if they would host her
pages - and they said yes. She had earlier talked to other collectors
and - also in 2008 when we discussed her pages - she offered them to
my local stamp club (www.aarhusfk.dk) Aarhus where I live. Mette was a
member too. Our board said "no, thank you" because the Danish Motif
Society http://motivsamler.dk/ would like to host the pages. Mette
told me in December 2008 that she had made an agreement about that.
So I think that people download the pages - just in case - but they
will not disappear - for sure.
Jan Doggen
structurally? Anyone of us has a (web) place/opportunity for that?
Her family will surely read her personal email some time after now...
Jan
"Toke Nørby" <Toke....@Norbyhus.dk> schreef in bericht
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Toke Nørby
>Maybe there is the possibility that her pages can be preserved more
>structurally? Anyone of us has a (web) place/opportunity for that?
>Her family will surely read her personal email some time after now...
>
>Jan
Hi Jan
If I should host her pages I would have no problem leaving them as
they are. But I will not be involved in the preservation of her web
pages at all.
Unfortunately I'm not sure that any would read Mette's e-mail. As far
as I know her husband is not able to use a computer and her computer
crashed early in 2008 and as far as I know she didn't managed to get a
new one running before she passed away.
A. van Reenen
Ton
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Todd Ronnei
the site to me almost two years ago with the understanding that I
would continue to maintain it, which I intend to do.
Unfortunately, I do not know if she made similar arrangements for her
other sites. She mentioned to me the possibility of archiving them at
the Danish postal museum in Copenhagen, but I do not know if she
followed through with that.
-Todd Ronnei
USA
On Apr 3, 2:33 pm, "Jan Doggen"
Toke Nørby
>Mette's Slania site is in no danger of vanishing. Mette transferred
>the site to me almost two years ago with the understanding that I
>would continue to maintain it, which I intend to do.
Great! (Several month ago she told me about the agreement with you).
>Unfortunately, I do not know if she made similar arrangements for her
>other sites. She mentioned to me the possibility of archiving them at
>the Danish postal museum in Copenhagen, but I do not know if she
>followed through with that.
>
>-Todd Ronnei
>USA
I know that Mette talked to more people (my stamp club - Mette was a
member too, and our webmaster) to find out what should happen to her
other pages and I know that she made an agreement with the Danish
Motif Society (http://motivsamler.dk/). Her pages will be transferred
to their site in some time.
I can't imagine that the Danish postal museum would host her pages if
she once asked at the museum.
Gerhard Reichert
Dear Toke,
I had a small Email-Exchange with Mette last August, and I think Mette
would agree to share it with You in this part. Mette wrote :
"Talking with you gave me the ultimate idea for safeguarding my websites
for
the benefit of others. Our postal museum has expressed interest in
keeping the
sites on CD-roms, and so it will be :-)) For me, making a CD-rom of
each of them
is no big deal -- and they can be copied as much as the readers like,
and thus be kept for "eternity".
and:
Thanks again for giving me the idea about the Postal Museum and the
opportunity they offer :-)) I know the curator, Mr. Erik Jensen, quite
well through some years; he has been extremely helpful in setting up my
Slania-site and verifying some data.
So I think she made it pretty well.May be You could ask Mr. Erik Jensen
personally whether all was arranged according to Mettes plans.
kind regards
Gerhard
Gerry Fisk
friend!
Gerry.
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Toke Nørby
>Toke Nørby schrieb:
...snip
>> I can't imagine that the Danish postal museum would host her pages if
>> she once asked at the museum.
>> Mvh Toke
>
>Dear Toke,
>
>I had a small Email-Exchange with Mette last August, and I think Mette
>would agree to share it with You in this part. Mette wrote :
>"Talking with you gave me the ultimate idea for safeguarding my websites
>for the benefit of others. Our postal museum has expressed interest in
>keeping the sites on CD-roms, and so it will be :-)) For me, making a CD-rom of
>each of them is no big deal -- and they can be copied as much as the readers like,
>and thus be kept for "eternity".
>
>and:
>
>Thanks again for giving me the idea about the Postal Museum and the
>opportunity they offer :-)) I know the curator, Mr. Erik Jensen, quite
>well through some years; he has been extremely helpful in setting up my
>Slania-site and verifying some data.
>
>So I think she made it pretty well.May be You could ask Mr. Erik Jensen
>personally whether all was arranged according to Mettes plans.
>
>kind regards
>
>Gerhard
Dear Gerhard.
I had no knowledge of that (and Mette should of course not keep me
informed about what she had arranged or intended to arrange for her
own pages).
The last e-mail I had from Mette is from 23. August 2008 and in this
or in earlier e-mail she didn't mentioned that she would like her
pages to be stored at the museum. I know that she from that time had
many, many problems with her health also due to the treatment she had.
Sh told me in the phone that her computer gave her some trouble (or
she had not the energy to communicate by e-mail any more) so I talked
to her in the phone instead.
I have known Erik Jensen for more than 30 years (he is my personal
friend) and I have a clear feeling of what he would say if he was
asked to host somebodies pages. He would say "no".
But as you suggested I phoned him (I caught him at home this evening)
a few minutes ago and he said that he remembered that Mette talked
about her pages and he said that she was welcome to submit a CD - but
she never sent it. Anyway the museum could not include them on their
own home page, he told me.
But Mette's pages will be kept and Jørgen Jørgensen, the president of
Danish Thematic Association (DTA) (not "The Danish Motif Society" as I
wrote, sorry) wrote us today:
"I can inform you that I - on behalf of the Danish Thematic
Association (DTA http://motivsamler.dk) - November 2008 agreed with
Ann Mette Heindorff that DTA after her death should host all here
sites with the "family name" heindorffhus.dk".
Gerhard Reichert
> Gerhard Reichert <Dark...@arcor.de> wrote:
Dear Toke,
this conversation with Mette ended on 03.August 2008.
As Victor Manta wrote today and You confirmed now, will Mettes work
become a fine new place. And we will have a fine new place to remember
her and her work.
Thank You Toke and Victor.
all the best to You
Gerhard
Tony Clayton
While I never met her, she had a wide knowledge
of philatelic matters, and excellent web sites,
and I enjoyed our occasional correspondence.
It is fitting that the web sites can be maintained and
will be a fitting tribute to her.
My condolences to all her family.
--
Tony Clayton tony.cla...@pem.cam.ac.uk
Coins of the UK : http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk
Sent using RISCOS on an Acorn Strong Arm RiscPC
... I am Popeye of Borg. Prepare to be askimilgrated.
Pierre Courtiade
> At 4 pm today Ann Mette Heindorff's step daughter phoned me with the
> sad news that Mette passed away last night. She lost the fight against
> a lung cancer.
>
> May she rest in peace.
> Mvh Toke
Hello Toke,
I have beeen deeply shoked by these very bad news ...
We had a lot of things in common like our past experiences in embassies
or her immense knowledge of French language which permitted us to
exchange our thoughts quite frequently by e-mails or by phone.
Especially in bad moments, when she got attacked here and in her mailbox
by some mad man or when she suffered a lot of worries with the very
bad health of her husband, Poul.
Some years ago, we had arranged to finally meet in Paris, but they had
to
come back quickly to Denmark following a new problem in Poul's health.
Over the years, we exchanged tens of mails, letters, small gifts ...
Yesterday, I have been deeply moved by reading again all her personal
e-mails.
She was really a very nice lady, une "grande dame".
I already miss her and I send all my thoughts to Poul.
--
Pierre Courtiade
Tony Vella
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> Toke Nørby wrote :
Hello Pierre :
I have been trying to contact our friend Pierre Albuisson at
pierre.a...@wanadoo.fr since Toke broke the news about Mette. I know
that he and Mette became good friends a couple of years ago when Mette
agreed to write some wonderful pages about his engravings. I was involved
in a very minor way in that project and I have a couple of emails from
Pierre also addressed from the wanadoo address. However, all my emails have
been returned by the Wanadoo mailmaster as undeliverable. I was wondering
if you had a different or a more recent email address for Pierre A. ? I
know that he now has his own site but it too shows
pierre.a...@wanadoo.fr.
Thanks in advance. Regards.
--
Tony Vella
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Pierre Courtiade
> Hello Pierre :
>
> I have been trying to contact our friend Pierre Albuisson at
> pierre.a...@wanadoo.fr since Toke broke the news about Mette. I
> know that he and Mette became good friends a couple of years ago when
> Mette agreed to write some wonderful pages about his engravings. I
> was involved in a very minor way in that project and I have a couple
> of emails from Pierre also addressed from the wanadoo address.
> However, all my emails have been returned by the Wanadoo mailmaster
> as undeliverable. I was wondering if you had a different or a more
> recent email address for Pierre A. ? I know that he now has his own
> site but it too shows pierre.a...@wanadoo.fr.
>
> Thanks in advance. Regards.
Hello my Friend Tony,
I had of course the project to send an e-mail to Pierre Albuisson : many
thanks for this warning.
I will try pierre.a...@wanadoo.fr : it may work, coming from
another address.
If not, I will contact him by phone or through his snail mail address :
I have both of them.
Thanks again, Tony.
--
All the best,
Pierre
rodney
"Pierre Courtiade"
> Especially in bad moments, when she got attacked here and in her mailbox
> by some mad man
That's terrible Pierre,
I was never aware of that, and I often exchanged emails with Mette.
Cyber bullying apparently now effects 6 out of 10 schoolchildren here
in Australia.
Pierre Courtiade
> Hello my Friend Tony,
>
> I had of course the project to send an e-mail to Pierre A. :
> many thanks for this warning.
> I will try pierre.a...@wanadoo.fr : it may work, coming from
> another address.
>
> If not, I will contact him by phone or through his snail mail address
> : I have both of them.
>
> Thanks again, Tony.
Hello again, Tony
This e-mail address worked correctly and Pierre A. phoned me this
morning. He was deeply shocked as he was not aware of Mette's illness.
He his going to have some sound words written in the French philatelic
press.
Tony Vella
Bonjour Pierre :
Je te remercie, mon ami. I have just counted five separate emails that were
returned to me "undeliverable". Strangely enough, I used that same email
address without problem in 2005 and again in 2007. This time, for some
reason, I just could not get through.
During the development of Mette's site relating to Pierre's engravings there
were many emails exchanged and it was very difficult not to become infected
by Mette's enthusiasm for the project. She approached every project with
full heart and soul. I was sure Pierre would be touched by the knowledge of
her passing. A great loss, a wonderful lady has left us.
Thanks again, Pierre.