Thanks Mark
Back then I had a 4 banger street machine. Now have a V8 and triple the bang.
Moving ahead is the only way to go.
Eric
1979 MGB V8 230KW
Australia
> On 11 Apr 2021, at 11:02 pm, 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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