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Subject: [Healeys] Cheers!
From: ATIGHTPROD at aol.com (ATIGHTPROD at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:08:01 -0400
I will do just that and not only that, I will send off a monetary gift in  
honor of this momentous occasion. Thanks Mark for doing all you do. Thanks 
also  for all of you out there contributing to this list and thanks for the 
laughs,  the digs, the information and the unity behind keeping these old 
cars on the  road. Here's to the list! Cheers!!
Steven Kingsbury
BN1 #598
 
 

           
Lake Oroville,  California, totally full. The day the dam started to fall  
apart!

 

 
 
In a message dated 4/11/2017 6:34:00 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
mark at bradakis.com writes:

Raise a  glass to Team.Net!  April 11, 1991 the domain went on the air.   
26 years ago, a quarter of a century. Hard to believe it has been that  
long. In truth the foundation was laid some years before then, with  
USENET rec.autos newsgroups evolving into what became the British cars  
and the Autox lists.  Richard Welty, Dale Cook and Jim Muller are  some 
names from back than.

Somehow I got involved while I was  working at the University of Utah. It 
got to the point where the British  car and autocross email traffic 
hosted from my desktop machine at work  became a very noticeable source 
of network traffic. The powers that be  STRONGLY suggested that such was 
not official university business and  should be discontinued. So I moved 
the lists to a server at my house. Back  then it wasn't quite so simple 
and so cheap. I sent out a plea for funding  and got a great response. 
Thanks to the U of U having a good relationship  with Hewlett-Packard I 
was able to procure one of the first machines with  over a 100 megahertz 
CPU, a 20 megabyte hard drive and something like 8  megs of RAM.  All for 
about a mere $2,500 dollars.

Things have  progressed since then. Still hosted from my house, still 
taking a bit of  my time every day. Hard to believe that a scatterbrained 
procrastinator  like me has been behind the curtain for all these years, 
keeping it  going.  Team.Net is not as active as it was some years ago.  
The  autocross list is basically dead now, but when I took the Killer 
Spit to  the SCCA Solo Nationals in 1997, over half the drivers there 
were  subscribers to the autocross list.

Back then there were not many  choices. Now there are myriads of 
automotive related web sites, forums and  such available. But there are 
still many folks who enjoy the Team.Net  email lists, who love to share 
their exploits, their frustrations, their  lives with like minded 
individuals.

Happy Birthday to  us.

mjb.

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