[Healeys] 30 years. 3 decades

[E.A. Driver]

Good morning Mark

Effort very well done! Although the flow of posts to the Healey list has 
decline somewhat it still is enjoyable to receive those that arrive. Big 
thanks for this service to Healey owners.

Ed

E.A. Driver
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan


On 11/04/2021 7:00 a.m., Mark J Bradakis via Healeys wrote:
> 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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