[Mgs] Birthday

Sun Apr 12 11:25:14 MDT 2020

I forgot some more friends of the list:

Paul Hunt, who I really met in England in 2011. 

Here we are pictured in front of the Heritage Motor Centre, wherein the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust is housed. I saw my car’s entry in the official Register! I hope the picture comes through.

Rick Lindsay. Although I never have met Rick in person, we daily exchange very nice emails.

Cheers,

Hans

71 BGT NRG; w/w; no o/d

Van: Mgs [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net] Namens i erbs via Mgs
Verzonden: zondag 12 april 2020 4:19
CC: Ahealey help; mglist
Onderwerp: Re: [Mgs] Birthday

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

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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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