Thank you, Mark.
Many of us have made numerous friends, in-person and by email, via
Team.Net.
Before Team.Net I did not know what to do with a dead cat (newer readers
will not get this).
Members have talked me through numerous little puzzles of things
electrical and in my overdrive. It was through Team.Net that I was introduced
to Peter Caldwell, Worldwide Auto; Jeff Schlemmer, Advanced Distributors;
Barney Gaylord, MGA Guru, and several others whose help has been
indispensable, not to mention encouragement to find even more uses for the
Dremel Tool.
Could you publish your mailing address for donations by check?
Bob
> On Apr 11, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Mark J Bradakis <mark@bradakis.com> wrote:
>
> 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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