From mark at bradakis.com Wed May 6 01:30:24 2009 From: mark at bradakis.com (Mark J Bradakis) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 01:30:24 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [Alpines] Team.Net status Message-ID: <20090506073024.C37E12E08E@bradakis.com> Yes, there have been problems with the Team.Net mailing lists, related web pages, FTP stuff and such. And it ain't over yet. It should all be fine by next week, though. The current ISP providing Team.Net connectivity along with several other domains and network related services is Qwest. Saturday, May 2nd, they cut off my network access. They have been recieving complaints about "malicious activity" from one of my servers. It has happened before. The first time I actually spent many hours on the phone over a period of several days and found out the nature of the "malicious activity." Someone too lazy or too stupid to click on the 'unsubscribe' link for one of the mailing lists was flagging all incoming Team.Net emails as spam. Once I finally managed to penetrate deep into the Qwest support to find someone with more than a single digit IQ, it took me just a few seconds to remove the braindead A-hole from the lists to which they subscribed. It happened again a while back, again I took the time and effort to finally get to the root of the problem and removed the whining piece of human debris from the appropriate list. This time I've had enough. It is so frustrating to have to go through their entire little debugging script *every time* I talk to a new person about it: Them: What operating system are you running? Me: Unix, FreeBSD 6.2 Them: No, I mean are you running Vista, XP or Windows 98? Me: Like I said, I'm running Unix, FreeBSD 6.2. I am NOT running Windows, just like I told all the other ... You know, a lot of people who just use computers as a basic appliance would not understand the details of that conversation, they have no need to. But tech support people working for a major company like Qwest? How do people that incompetent get through the first job interview? Do they have anyone on their staff who can even *spell* Unix?? At any rate, the problem that Qwest claims I have is still not resolved, they will most likely once again cut off my network access soon. As I said, I've had enough. On Friday, May 8th I will be changing from Qwest to XMission, located here in Salt Lake, for Team.Net ISP service. The changeover will result in Team.Net services being unavailable for a few days. IP addresses, nameserver data, etc. will take a day or two or so to percolate through the network. So expect sporadic service over the next few days, but it should all settle down by early next week. Thank you for your patience. mjb. From ross_hulse at sbcglobal.net Wed May 6 08:47:10 2009 From: ross_hulse at sbcglobal.net (Ross) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 07:47:10 -0700 Subject: [Alpines] Team.Net status In-Reply-To: <20090506073024.C37E12E08E@bradakis.com> References: <20090506073024.C37E12E08E@bradakis.com> Message-ID: <97EE6C8938A24479A3C3D33F0C71E5C9@ROSS> Mark, I know many people who use service. I want you to know how much it is appreciated. Thank you very much, Ross Yes, there have been problems with the Team.Net mailing lists, related web pages, FTP stuff and such. And it ain't over yet. It should all be fine by next week, though. The current ISP providing Team.Net connectivity along with several other domains and network related services is Qwest. Saturday, May 2nd, they cut off my network access. They have been recieving complaints about "malicious activity" from one of my servers. It has happened before. The first time I actually spent many hours on the phone over a period of several days and found out the nature of the "malicious activity." Someone too lazy or too stupid to click on the 'unsubscribe' link for one of the mailing lists was flagging all incoming Team.Net emails as spam. Once I finally managed to penetrate deep into the Qwest support to find someone with more than a single digit IQ, it took me just a few seconds to remove the braindead A-hole from the lists to which they subscribed. It happened again a while back, again I took the time and effort to finally get to the root of the problem and removed the whining piece of human debris from the appropriate list. This time I've had enough. It is so frustrating to have to go through their entire little debugging script *every time* I talk to a new person about it: Them: What operating system are you running? Me: Unix, FreeBSD 6.2 Them: No, I mean are you running Vista, XP or Windows 98? Me: Like I said, I'm running Unix, FreeBSD 6.2. I am NOT running Windows, just like I told all the other ... You know, a lot of people who just use computers as a basic appliance would not understand the details of that conversation, they have no need to. But tech support people working for a major company like Qwest? How do people that incompetent get through the first job interview? Do they have anyone on their staff who can even *spell* Unix?? At any rate, the problem that Qwest claims I have is still not resolved, they will most likely once again cut off my network access soon. As I said, I've had enough. On Friday, May 8th I will be changing from Qwest to XMission, located here in Salt Lake, for Team.Net ISP service. The changeover will result in Team.Net services being unavailable for a few days. IP addresses, nameserver data, etc. will take a day or two or so to percolate through the network. So expect sporadic service over the next few days, but it should all settle down by early next week. Thank you for your patience. mjb. From achd73 at yahoo.com Wed May 6 09:20:46 2009 From: achd73 at yahoo.com (Tony Somebody) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 08:20:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Alpines] Team.Net status Message-ID: <342034.49719.qm@web30408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Tiger and Alpine people. recently my conscience got to bothering me. I had taken advantage of being on two mailing list, both the Tiger and the Alpine and yet I had never donated a cent towards the cost of keeping the list active. Its strange that in a short time after I made a paypal donation, I couldn't post to the alpine list. then I get an email explaining why and I immediately wondered if I was alone in not making a donation or if there might be several who, like myself had taken them for granted. I know I look forward to reading every post and when there are none its like going to the fridge and having no beer. its not that I cant live without beer or the list but it sure makes my day better. IF you haven't,then take a minute and send a small or even larger donation to insure the Beam lists continue. best regards, TonytheTiger From hamilton at accesswave.ca Sat May 9 19:11:03 2009 From: hamilton at accesswave.ca (Bob Hamilton) Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 22:11:03 -0300 Subject: [Alpines] British Invasion in Stowe, VT Message-ID: <78focd$a36jbh@ip03.eastlink.ca> From hamilton at accesswave.ca Sat May 9 19:16:06 2009 From: hamilton at accesswave.ca (Bob Hamilton) Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 22:16:06 -0300 Subject: [Alpines] British Invasion in Stowe, VT Message-ID: <78fmgn$fk4cjc@ip05.eastlink.ca> Hi, Their web page seems to be down (www.britishinvasion.com) . Is this event on for Sept. 2009? Later, Bob Waverley, NS From lehtinen.lauri at kolumbus.fi Thu May 14 06:05:35 2009 From: lehtinen.lauri at kolumbus.fi (=?iso-8859-1?B?o2F1cmk=?=) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:05:35 +0300 Subject: [Alpines] Clutch release Message-ID: Hi folks, is there any difference in release bearings between early and all-synchro models? I am fixing and mixing parts in order to have my ser 4 - 1725 to road. I also need O/D relay and switch. Is there any difference between pos or negat earth models? And does anyone have those in garage? Lauri Lehtinen journalist, engineer mobile: +358 (0) 400 851988 From mrtebo at shaw.ca Thu May 14 10:50:43 2009 From: mrtebo at shaw.ca (Mary and Ron Tebo) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:50:43 -0600 Subject: [Alpines] Clutch release In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A0C4BE3.2060309@shaw.ca> Lauri: I think the eaarlier release bearing is larger, to match the different clutch arms (spring vs. diaphragm). Ron Tebo #auri wrote: > Hi folks, > is there any difference in release bearings between early and > all-synchro models? > I am fixing and mixing parts in order to have my ser 4 - 1725 to road. I > also need O/D relay and switch. Is there any difference between pos or > negat earth models? And does anyone have those in garage? > > Lauri Lehtinen > journalist, engineer > mobile: +358 (0) 400 851988 > _______________________________________________ > Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html > > Alpines at autox.team.net > http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/alpines > > http://www.team.net/archive From KnightJH at aol.com Mon May 18 16:34:18 2009 From: KnightJH at aol.com (KnightJH at aol.com) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 18:34:18 EDT Subject: [Alpines] For Sale - Two 1965 Alpines Series IV (Automatics) Message-ID: Two 1965 Sunbeam Alpines Series IV with automatic transmissions are for sale. 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Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002) From ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com Sun May 31 07:52:25 2009 From: ralph at cloverleaf-auto.com (Ralph Steinberg) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 09:52:25 -0400 Subject: [Alpines] Historic racing at BeaveRun Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Message-ID: <003401c9e1f7$0803d390$180b7ab0$@com> Gentleman, I am the director of competition for the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Association's Historic racing at BeaveRun. For 26 years PVGPA has been holding races on the streets of downtown Pittsburgh in Schenley Park. 6 years ago we started a series to kick the weeklong celebration off at BeaveRun. This race weekend is predominately for cars that either or not eligible to race the streets of Schenley or for various other reasons can't. Last year we held an impromptu Trans-Am - why not, many of my drivers raced in the original in the cars they had there - It went over well and this year we decided to make a full Trans-Am class. I would like to invite you and any of your friends to come out and race with us July 10-13, 2009. We really want this group to work and make it a permanent part of our schedule. As you may know this is a charity event and over the past 26 years we at PVGPA have given to our charities, Pittsburgh Autistic Society and the Allegheny School close to 3 million dollars. Yes, given to them not just raised. I can extend the early bird deadline to June 20th for any Trans-AM cars that enter. For more information, forms, links etc please go to www.cloverleaf-auto.com and click the vintage race button. Click the BeaveRun link next and everything you need should be there or linked there. Hope to see you there Ralph Steinberg Director of Competition PVGPA BeaveRun Historics