[Fot] 30 years. 3 decades.

[Bob Bownes -Seiri]

And what a long strange trip it has been. 

> On Apr 11, 2021, at 10:24, Joe Alexander via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> On Apr 11, 2021, at 8:22 AM, Brad Eells via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> Great work Mark. I’ve been with you for 2/3’s of that time. First on the general Triumph list, then I believe Greg Petrolati nominated me to FOT some time in 2001.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Brad Eells
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>> On Apr 11, 2021, at 6:07 AM, Mark J Bradakis via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here.  I hope I can continue to provide a useful service for years to come.
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>>> mjb.
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