[Mgs] 30 years. 3 decades.

[mgs4dave]

Thank you, Mark.
Here’s a toast to you and all your efforts over the years! I have filled looseleafs with info not found in manuals for my MGs!
Cheers,
Dave Houser 

> On Apr 11, 2021, at 11:20 AM, Robert's New iPad <mgbobh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>    Thank you, Mark.
>     Many of us have made numerous friends, in-person and by email, via Team.Net <http://team.net/>. 
>     Before Team.Net <http://team.net/> I did not know what to do with a dead cat (newer readers will not get this). 
>     Members have talked me through numerous little puzzles of things electrical and in my overdrive. It was through Team.Net <http://team.net/> that I was introduced to Peter Caldwell, Worldwide Auto;  Jeff Schlemmer, Advanced Distributors; Barney Gaylord, MGA Guru,  and several others whose help has been indispensable, not to mention encouragement to find even more uses for the Dremel Tool. 
>    Could you publish your mailing address for donations by check?
> Bob
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>> On Apr 11, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com <mailto:mark at bradakis.com>> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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