[6pack] [TR] Cheers!

[dave n]

+1 on all

From: Frank Fisher 
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 11:46 AM
To: Mark J Bradakis ; triumphs at autox.team.net ; spitfires at autox.team.net ; 6pack at autox.team.net 
Subject: Re: [TR] Cheers!

mark
thank you. i love this list and its participants. its still the first place i turn to when in trouble.
again thank you




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From: Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com>
To: "triumphs at autox.team.net" <triumphs at autox.team.net>; spitfires at autox.team.net; 6pack at autox.team.net 
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 2:20 AM
Subject: [TR] Cheers!


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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