"Useful service" does not describe it Mark. Your hard work and consistent
dedication to this list has kept many cars on the road and helped the Healey
community stay in touch for three decades. It is an invaluable service that
you provide.
Thank you.
Mirek
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From: Healeys <healeys-bounces@autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Mark J Bradakis via
Healeys
Sent: April 11, 2021 9:00 AM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] 30 years. 3 decades
On this day 30 years ago Team.Net came into being. The British-cars mailing
list was already going strong, an offshoot from rec.autos Usenet group. Dale
Cook, Jim Muller, then me. Team.net went from 2 lists at the beginning, autox
and british-cars, and exploded into nearly 70 different lists with something
like 15,000 individuals subscribed at its peak. For a while it was pretty much
the only game in town. As I recall, when I attended the SCCA Solo II Nationals
25th Anniversary event, something like 2/3rds of the 1,000+ entrants were on
the autox list.
And it amazes me that with such a scatterbrained procrastinator like me behind
the curtain it is still on the air. It is a lot quieter these days, much better
software handle many of the janitorial tasks automatically. Back in the
beginning, I had to do *everything* by hand, so to speak. Subscribes,
unsubscribes, errors, I was spending 10, 15, 20 hours a week maintaining the
server. The first server had a 100 MHz processor. Things have changed. Back
then just having a fast network connection at a residence was rare and
expensive. Good old DSL. I remember that time when my service provider went
belly up, and team net was off the air for 11 days straight. I don't miss
those days at all.
Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here. I hope I can continue to
provide a useful service for years to come.
mjb.
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