[Healeys] 30 years. 3 decades

[Ray Juncal]

 Well Mark you dragged this old Luddite into the digital age. I became adept at using a computer because I wanted to be a part of Healeys @ team.net and I wanted the access to the shared information.
Twenty years ago I spent five months in Nova Scotia on a film. Through the list I connected with the LBC community there and suddenly felt at home. I now have friends around the world thanks to our love of cars and the Healey List. Thanks for your hand in this.
I still owe you that beer.Ray Juncal

    On Sunday, April 11, 2021, 9:39:02 AM PDT, E.A. Driver via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:  
 
  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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