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Thank you for keeping this going for the benefit of al!<br><br><br><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad</a><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Sunday, April 11, 2021, 9:29 AM, Mark J Bradakis via Datsun-roadsters <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div dir="ltr">On this day 30 years ago Team.Net came into being. The British-cars <br></div><div dir="ltr">mailing list was already going strong, an offshoot from rec.autos Usenet <br></div><div dir="ltr">group. Dale Cook, Jim Muller, then me. Team.net went from 2 lists at <br></div><div dir="ltr">the beginning, autox and british-cars, and exploded into nearly 70 <br></div><div dir="ltr">different lists with something like 15,000 individuals subscribed at its <br></div><div dir="ltr">peak. For a while it was pretty much the only game in town. As I <br></div><div dir="ltr">recall, when I attended the SCCA Solo II Nationals 25th Anniversary <br></div><div dir="ltr">event, something like 2/3rds of the 1,000+ entrants were on the autox list.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">And it amazes me that with such a scatterbrained procrastinator like me <br></div><div dir="ltr">behind the curtain it is still on the air. It is a lot quieter these <br></div><div dir="ltr">days, much better software handle many of the janitorial tasks <br></div><div dir="ltr">automatically. Back in the beginning, I had to do *everything* by hand, <br></div><div dir="ltr">so to speak. Subscribes, unsubscribes, errors, I was spending 10, 15, 20 <br></div><div dir="ltr">hours a week maintaining the server. The first server had a 100 MHz <br></div><div dir="ltr">processor. Things have changed. Back then just having a fast network <br></div><div dir="ltr">connection at a residence was rare and expensive. Good old DSL. I <br></div><div dir="ltr">remember that time when my service provider went belly up, and team net <br></div><div dir="ltr">was off the air for 11 days straight. I don't miss those days at all.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here. I hope I can <br></div><div dir="ltr">continue to provide a useful service for years to come.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">mjb.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>________________________________________<br><br><a ymailto="mailto:datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net" href="mailto:datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net">datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net</a><br><br>Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/datsun-roadsters " target="_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/datsun-roadsters </a><a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/datsun-roadsters/briconroy@yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/datsun-roadsters/briconroy@yahoo.com</a><br><br><br><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
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