Dencorso

[Dave-H]

Sad news for everyone here at MSFN. One of our forum supervisors, Dencorso, passed away on October 24th, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Apparently he was still upbeat and optimistic about the future a few weeks before he passed.

My memories of Den go back quite a few years. He was incredibly helpful to me with technical problems, which is what this board is all about of course, initially mainly with Windows 98, and latterly with Windows XP.

He was immensely supportive too when I first became a moderator here, something I will always be grateful for.

He was definitely one of the good guys, and will be sorely missed here.

Please add your memories here of working with Den.

Thanks, Dave.

[Dave-H]

Sorry, this was originally put into the 'announcements' section, where apparently it cannot be replied to.

Please do add replies now.

Thanks, Dave.

[bphlpt]

Oh WOW! I am so sorry to hear that. I wondered why we haven't seen that many posts from him in quite a while.

Den was also very kind and helpful to me. He and Trip have been the two mods that I have personally interacted with the most over the years..

Thank you very much for sharing this sad news, Dave. May he rest in peace.

EDIT: Looking back over my old records I was reminded that Den and I joined MSFN within a few weeks of each other, which means nothing, really, but was just something we had in common.

Edited November 28, 2022 by bphlpt

[D.Draker]

I'm very sorry to hear that.

I personally had several conversations with this remarkable man and he seemed very nice and clever.

May he rest in peace.

[jaclaz]

I am so sad.

He was a great person.

I knew him since my first days on MSFN, many, many years ago, and besides the public interactions on the board we had a lot of correspondence via PM's, both on computing and on a whole range of different topics, from cinema and TV to art and linguistics (he could read and understand very well Italian and I can understand a very little Portuguese, we had a common interest in Latin - as root of both languages - and we often exchanged opinions on these and many other things), I considered him a friend.

I will greatly miss him and our exchanges.

Besides his great work in helping and advising other people on technical matters, he was always polite and just (as a moderator), while often managing to keep a veil of humour in his posts.

He told me about his illness, describing it as a "a quite mean cancer", from the tone of his latest messages he was fighting fiercely against it, and was hoping to defeat it only one month before, at the end of september.

May he R.I.P.

jaclaz

 

[msfntor]

May He rest in peace of Heaven...

[Tripredacus]

He was so optimistic that I was fully expecting him to rejoin the forum like nothing ever happened.

[XPerceniol]

I remember him very well - he was always kind and will be greatly missed.

[mina7601]

Rest in peace, Den, he was a good and kind person, he will be greatly missed here.

Edited November 28, 2022 by mina7601

[windows2]

It's really sad news, he was an understanding person, and he helped me previously with an issue, and he was really a reference for computer science, really a big loss after WildBill today dencorso 

I wish them mercy and a decent life in the afterlife 

[blackwingcat]

I notice that I missed his tweet about installation Java 8 on Windows XP five years ago.

I wonder he had installed Java 8 on his Windows XP.

[Sampei.Nihira]

Even at my age, I will never get used to reading, with resignation, sad news like this.
Life at a certain age stops giving and starts taking.

When I read news like this I always remember a movie where, after a funeral, the pastor consoles the remaining relatives with the usual phrase:

"He has gone to a better place."

A response:

"I don't think father that the earth is better place than the air."

I hope our souls will be released from the body to truly go to a better place.

 

R.I.P.

 

Edited November 29, 2022 by Sampei.Nihira

[Tommy]

I'm a bit late to the announcement but this is extremely sad news for me. I credit Den a lot for me becoming a moderator here on MSFN. I still remember he offered the position to me to which I humbly and graciously accepted it. 

We had some good discussions back and forth and because he was originally into Windows 98 like I was, we easily found common ground that way. Den was a very kind, cordial, and courteous person. When I first heard he was diagnosed with cancer, I was deeply saddened. I lost both my grandparents to cancer and my mother is a cancer survivor, so I don't like cancer very much to say the least. 

As optimistic as he seemed to be about keeping the cancer at bay, I was really hoping he'd return one day like nothing ever happened. But he'd go months without any sort of an update and that was very worrying to me. Now the worst has happened, but he is at peace now and pain-free, which is the best thing out of a horrible situation like this.

Rest in Peace buddy, until we meet again! 

[WinClient5270]

I absolutely hate to hear this. He pinned my topic for me in the Vista subforum a few years ago, and he was always very kind and pleasant to interact with. He will be greatly missed. 

[Jody Thornton]

Wow!  I'm stunned.  I thought it had been awhile since we had heard from him.  I have to agree with @Sampei.Nihiram in that we're hearing a lot of sad and stunning news lately.  These announcements increasinly take the wind out of you.

Above all, I appreciate dencorso's help over the years with tech questions.  My condolences to those here who knew him best.