[Fot] Birthday

[Bob Bownes -Seiri]



A bit more history on team.net. 

Bill and I went to school together at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the early 80’s where we worked on some of the very early Sun microcomputers. We both frequented the Student Auto Shop, autocrossed, and worked TSD rallye’s, and were officers of Empire Motor Sports Club. 

Later we shared space at a friend’s garage we all rented bays in, Bill with his Honda wagon rallye car, his Mustang, and when he got home from few years in England, his Land Rovers.

Throughout his travels, which were many, times living abroad, my times living across the US, we stayed in touch. Bill was a fixture at our annual thanksgiving party and trek to the Jazz fest at Saratoga for over 30 years. When he got ill, he put a great deal of thought into his friends. His home, a small house with an apple orchard, named ‘Wee Farm’ was sold to a good friend and family. His Rovers were passed to good friends up the road who were also enthusiasts, while I was entrusted with some marvelous medium format cameras, a small collection of Heuer rallye stopwatches (they read to 1/100th of a minute) and team.net. 

Team.net has been secured and is called out in my will as being held in perpetuity for the good of internet automotive enthusiasts everywhere. Mark, thankfully and most ably, handles the mechanics of keeping the mailing list in check and has authority to keep it going. We get many offers to purchase the domain a year, most meaningless, but three or four in the five figure range. But it is not to be sold, it exists in the spirit in which Bill, and in which Mark have dedicated themselves, for the good of all interested in the fellowship of motor sports and ownership of interesting automobiles.

Happy Birthday Mark! And thanks from the bottom of my heart for managing the mailing lists that have made up so much of my life these past 30 plus years. 

Bob

>> On Apr 11, 2020, at 10:06, TeriAnn J. Wakeman via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> On 4/11/20 6:02 AM, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
>> April 11th. As many of you know, the domain team.net was officially registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia. I have been managing the mailing lists on autox.team.net since then, actually for a while before that. I took over from Jim Muller, who took over from Dale Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years.
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> Dale Cook worked at Apollo Computers and had an MGB he kept in a single car garage that had a dirt floor (if memory serves). In 1987 (maybe late 86) I was actively asking TR3 related questions on rec.autos when I received an email from Dale. He was starting an email group for British cars and asked if I wanted to join. Thus the British car mail list was formed for all British cars. A discussion during the first year was what to call th group. Everyone liked SOL. the original thought was Sons of Lucas. I of course objected and it was decided Scions of Lucas would be the official group name.  The acronym LBC was coined of Little British Car which never felt quite right for the Land Rover and Bentley crowds with Large British Cars.
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> At the end of 1990 or very early 1991 Bill Caloccia, a Land Rover owner, created the Land Rover Owners (LRO) mail list. This was the first marque list to be split off from the original British Car mail list. LRO still exists today. Not long afterwords the original British Car mail list spawned individual marque list for just about every British car marque. Some survive today, some died young.
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>> I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I have left. April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I certainly won't live forever. And I fear that when I die, Team Net will die. Sigh.
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> Happy birthday Mark, but I consider 66 to be yet on the young side. My suggestion is to search for a younger computer savvy person who could take over the lists, move the lists to a hosting company, and set the domains & hosting  up for dual ownership. That way when you do pass your designated replacement could carry on. Better yet, do that then be healthy for a long time yet.
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