[Mgs] Birthday

[i erbs]

It has bern fun to know people for decades. Then get to meet IRL. There
have been many characters on the list and still are ;) I have been a member
of the Healey list for decades and the MG list for a couple of years.
Mark I raise a glass of beer in your honor
With great thanks
Cheers
Ira Erbs
Portland, OR
59 Austin Healey BN4
67 MGB
66 AH Sprite



On Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 2:28 PM Hans Duinhoven via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> Thank you Mark for all these years.
> I tuned in in the year 1993.
> I worked till mid 1991 at Digital Equipment, where there was a kind of
> topic pool (Vogon News), where classic cars were one of the topics.
> Till 1993 I was able to keep using via a kind of backdoor.
> So when that became impossible, I was advised to switch over to the mgs
> list.
> The list gave lots of advise messages and being active with my MG I became
> experienced enough to give advise as well.
> The list also enabled three meetings with fellow listers:
> In January 2000 at the Longfellow Wayside Inn https://www.wayside.org/
> See http://www.ttalk.info/Tech/hans_across_the_water.htm
> Later in May 2006 we met again - http://www.ttalk.info/hans2.htm
> In February 2011 I went to Colorado Springs - no pictures on the web
> regrettably.
> But the meeting with an MG lister and his friends was great.
> We had a great tour through the Garden of the Gods
> https://www.gardenofgods.com/ - an amazing place to be!
> So the list has been a catalyst for collecting knowledge and friends!
>
> Hope the list may go on for a long time still!
>
> Cheers Mark!
> Hans
> '71 BGT NRG w/w no o/d
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Mgs [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net] Namens Mark J Bradakis via
> Mgs
> Verzonden: zaterdag 11 april 2020 15:15
> Aan: mgs at autox.team.net
> Onderwerp: [Mgs] Birthday
>
> April 11th.  As many of you know, the domain team.net was officially
> registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia.  I have been
> managing the mailing lists on autox.team.net since then, actually for a
> while before that.  I took over  from Jim Muller, who took over from
> Dale Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years.  Actually
> I may have some in my office, on 1/4 inch tape cassettes.  Every now and
> then I consider trying to revive some of the old HP-UX boxes I have to
> see if I can still read any of those tapes.  Maybe someday.
>
> Anyway, in the beginning I was routing everything through the servers at
> the University of Utah Computer Science Department, where I was
> employed.  When my fellow sys admins started noticing just how much
> network traffic there was on a certain box, my boss strongly suggested I
> make other arrangements.  So I went about getting a network connection
> at home.  Back then, it was not that easy, or cheap.  And as I recall,
> the first dedicated Team Net server was an HP box with one of the first
> 100+ megahertz CPUs, and even with a deal through HP, who worked closely
> with the U in those days the system set me back about $2,500.  Hardware
> has improved since then.  And that money didn't all come out of my
> pocket, I initiated a fund drive among the list members and got a great
> response.  Back then it was all checks in the mail, and I mailed a thank
> you postcard to every contributor, or at least most of them, no doubt I
> missed a few.  And for some time there was an annual fund drive to cover
> the rather high cost of having sufficient bandwidth from my house.
>
> So here it is 29 and just everybody has fast network available to
> them.   I dropped the fund drives some years back, though folks do
> continue to contribute to the cause.  Now a few clicks in Paypal can
> take care of it, though some still prefer to send checks. Yep, things
> are different now.  And with the Covid-19 pandemic, a LOT different.
> But the Team Net mailing lists are still chugging along, providing those
> spending more time at home a bit of distraction, entertainment or
> education as we keep our beloved vehicles rolling along the roads.
>
> I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I
> have left.  April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I
> certainly won't live forever.  And I fear that when I die, Team Net will
> die.  Sigh.
>
> But for now, enjoy and stay healthy.
>
> mjb.
>
>
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