Thank you all so much for starting, evolving and maintaining this forum. It is
one of the most helpful and friendly groups, whether on-line or in person.
Itâ??s about great, fun cars and a greater group of people!
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> On Apr 11, 2020, at 12:24 PM, Bob Bownes -Seiri via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
> 
>
> A bit more history on team.net.
>
> Bill and I went to school together at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the
> early 80â??s where we worked on some of the very early Sun microcomputers. We
> both frequented the Student Auto Shop, autocrossed, and worked TSD
> rallyeâ??s, and were officers of Empire Motor Sports Club.
>
> Later we shared space at a friendâ??s garage we all rented bays in, Bill with
> his Honda wagon rallye car, his Mustang, and when he got home from few years
> in England, his Land Rovers.
>
> Throughout his travels, which were many, times living abroad, my times living
> across the US, we stayed in touch. Bill was a fixture at our annual
> thanksgiving party and trek to the Jazz fest at Saratoga for over 30 years.
> When he got ill, he put a great deal of thought into his friends. His home, a
> small house with an apple orchard, named â??Wee Farmâ?? was sold to a good
> friend and family. His Rovers were passed to good friends up the road who
> were also enthusiasts, while I was entrusted with some marvelous medium
> format cameras, a small collection of Heuer rallye stopwatches (they read to
> 1/100th of a minute) and team.net.
>
> Team.net has been secured and is called out in my will as being held in
> perpetuity for the good of internet automotive enthusiasts everywhere. Mark,
> thankfully and most ably, handles the mechanics of keeping the mailing list
> in check and has authority to keep it going. We get many offers to purchase
> the domain a year, most meaningless, but three or four in the five figure
> range. But it is not to be sold, it exists in the spirit in which Bill, and
> in which Mark have dedicated themselves, for the good of all interested in
> the fellowship of motor sports and ownership of interesting automobiles.
>
> Happy Birthday Mark! And thanks from the bottom of my heart for managing the
> mailing lists that have made up so much of my life these past 30 plus years.
>
> Bob
>
>>>> On Apr 11, 2020, at 10:06, TeriAnn J. Wakeman via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4/11/20 6:02 AM, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
>>> April 11th. As many of you know, the domain team.net was officially
>>> registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia. I have been
>>> managing the mailing lists on autox.team.net since then, actually for a
>>> while before that. I took over from Jim Muller, who took over from Dale
>>> Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years.
>>
>> Dale Cook worked at Apollo Computers and had an MGB he kept in a single car
>> garage that had a dirt floor (if memory serves). In 1987 (maybe late 86) I
>> was actively asking TR3 related questions on rec.autos when I received an
>> email from Dale. He was starting an email group for British cars and asked
>> if I wanted to join. Thus the British car mail list was formed for all
>> British cars. A discussion during the first year was what to call th group.
>> Everyone liked SOL. the original thought was Sons of Lucas. I of course
>> objected and it was decided Scions of Lucas would be the official group
>> name.Ã? The acronym LBC was coined of Little British Car which never felt
>> quite right for the Land Rover and Bentley crowds with Large British Cars.
>>
>> At the end of 1990 or very early 1991 Bill Caloccia, a Land Rover owner,
>> created the Land Rover Owners (LRO) mail list. This was the first marque
>> list to be split off from the original British Car mail list. LRO still
>> exists today. Not long afterwords the original British Car mail list spawned
>> individual marque list for just about every British car marque. Some survive
>> today, some died young.
>>
>>> I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I have
>>> left. April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I certainly won't
>>> live forever. And I fear that when I die, Team Net will die. Sigh.
>>
>> Happy birthday Mark, but I consider 66 to be yet on the young side. My
>> suggestion is to search for a younger computer savvy person who could take
>> over the lists, move the lists to a hosting company, and set the domains &
>> hostingÃ? up for dual ownership. That way when you do pass your designated
>> replacement could carry on. Better yet, do that then be healthy for a long
>> time yet.
>>
>> TeriAnn
>>
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