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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks a lot Mark for all your dedicated work on these sites and Happy Anniversary.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jean</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">Mark J Bradakis via Healeys</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>April 11, 2021 8:02 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Healeys] 30 years. 3 decades</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On this day 30 years ago Team.Net came into being. The British-cars
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mailing list was already going strong, an offshoot from rec.autos Usenet <br>
group. Dale Cook, Jim Muller, then me. Team.net went from 2 lists at <br>
the beginning, autox and british-cars, and exploded into nearly 70 <br>
different lists with something like 15,000 individuals subscribed at its <br>
peak. For a while it was pretty much the only game in town. As I <br>
recall, when I attended the SCCA Solo II Nationals 25th Anniversary <br>
event, something like 2/3rds of the 1,000+ entrants were on the autox list.<br>
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And it amazes me that with such a scatterbrained procrastinator like me <br>
behind the curtain it is still on the air. It is a lot quieter these <br>
days, much better software handle many of the janitorial tasks <br>
automatically. Back in the beginning, I had to do *everything* by hand, <br>
so to speak. Subscribes, unsubscribes, errors, I was spending 10, 15, 20 <br>
hours a week maintaining the server. The first server had a 100 MHz <br>
processor. Things have changed. Back then just having a fast network <br>
connection at a residence was rare and expensive. Good old DSL. I <br>
remember that time when my service provider went belly up, and team net <br>
was off the air for 11 days straight. I don't miss those days at all.<br>
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Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here. I hope I can <br>
continue to provide a useful service for years to come.<br>
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mjb.<br>
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