[Healeys] 30 years. 3 decades

[BJ8Healeys]

Happy Birthday to Team.Net, and congratulations and thanks to you,
Mark, for providing such an important service continuously for so many
years.I wasn't in on it at the beginning, but have been a continuous
participating member of healeys at autox.team.net since 1996. The list
was actually the main inspiration for my taking over the AHCA BJ8
Registry in 1998. I realized that the healeys list was a key tool in
making contact with BJ8 owners around the world so that the registry
could document the details and history of their cars, which today has
grown to include more than 54% of total BJ8 production (9,575 of
17,712 cars built). 
 It's true that activity on the list seems much less now than when I
became a member. Many of the earlier members have passed on or have
aged out and sold their cars. So many different "lists" like Facebook,
ahexp.com, British Car Forum are good in some ways, making it possible
for Healey owners to choose their source for Healey information; but I
believe they also dilute the overall benefit to the communities.
Healeys at autox.team.net is still the only one that I follow daily.
Steve ByersHBJ8L/36666BJ8 RegistryAHCA Delegate at LargeHavelock, NC
USA

	----------------------------------------- From: "Mark J Bradakis via
Healeys"
 To: "healeys at autox.team.net"
 Cc:
 Sent: Sunday April 11 2021 9:02:06AM
 Subject: [Healeys] 30 years. 3 decades

 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.

 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.

 Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here. I hope I can
 continue to provide a useful service for years to come.

 mjb.


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