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Re: SS & money & team.net history

To: "Mark Sirota" <mark@sirota.org>, "Matt Murray"
Subject: Re: SS & money & team.net history
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:22:42 -0600
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sirota" <mark@sirota.org>
To: "Matt Murray" <mattm@optonline.net>; <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: SS & money


> --On Monday, December 22, 2003 7:38 PM -0500 Matt Murray
> <mattm@optonline.net> wrote:
> > FWIW, Charlie I have posts from May 1995 of you being less than
> > thrilled about a Porsche 911 (yes, Team.net goes back that far [I
> > think to '92, correct Mark(s)?] ).
>
> Goes back to 1988 or 1989, I believe; I'd have to dig back into my
archives
> to come up with an authoritative answer.  The original three members were
> Mark Bradakis, Akkana Peck, and Paul Brown.  Josh and I were among the
> first ten.

I think I started in early 1989.  I do remember you already being there.
Most of the members seemed to be from the south bay area when I arrived.
Hardly surprising.  I had trouble explaining to other autocrossers in the
Twin Cities what "E-mail" was.  I believe I was one of very few people on
the list who was not a computer professional of some sort.  The computer
guys at my job were way ahead of the curve on suppling E-mail to
non-computer employees.  My home machine at that time was an Atari 800,
which was perfectly adequate for E-mail once I figured out how to get a
non-work provider.

I actually discovered the british-cars list first.  That was run by Jim
Muller in those days.  When he had to drop it, Mark Bradakis picked it up.

> The name "team.net" came considerably later than the mailing list,
> actually.  That might have been closer to '92.

Not sure when that started.

Phil Ethier  West Side  Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
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