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Re: [Spridgets] 30 years. 3 decades.

To: Spridget <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] 30 years. 3 decades.
From: JMFangio via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:50:57 -0500
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References: <ebd69fc4-3d26-5951-93a5-a4d927a220ec@bradakis.com> <EA6FCB32-B591-41BC-BD2D-7CDC61B21C6A@chartermi.net>
This constant begging for money is killing me.  ;-)

Congrats!

and take my $13.80.

Lester


On Apr 11, 2021, at 9:03 AM, Mark J Bradakis via Spridgets 
<spridgets@autox.team.net> 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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