<html><body>Happy Birthday to Team.Net, and congratulations and thanks to you,
Mark, for providing such an important service continuously for so many years.<div>I wasn't in on it at the beginning, but have been a continuous
participating member of healeys@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).</div>
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<div>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@autox.team.net is still the only one that I follow daily.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve Byers</div><div>HBJ8L/36666</div><div>BJ8 Registry</div><div>AHCA Delegate at Large</div><div>Havelock, NC USA<br><br><div class="reply-new-signature"></div>
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From: "Mark J Bradakis via Healeys"<br>
To: "healeys@autox.team.net"<br>
Cc:<br>
Sent: Sunday April 11 2021 9:02:06AM<br>
Subject: [Healeys] 30 years. 3 decades<br><br>
On this day 30 years ago Team.Net came into being. The
British-cars<br>
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><br>
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><br>
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><br>
mjb.<br><br><br><br></div></body></html>