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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">Hello Mark,<br>
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You sound a little like me. I started the Aston Martin Feltham
Club and financed it myself. It grew to a massive (ha ha) 152
members but have done a lot of work such as having N/A parts
made and newsletters. Despite all efforts I cannot get someone
to take over and am just easing members to take some of the
workload with a small amount of success. But, like you,
succession is tough - but, hey Mark, you are only 66.........I
am 86 !!!<br>
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Cheers and all the very best to you youngster - from one of your
big fans<br>
Barrie<br>
Chairman<br>
Aston Martin Feltham Club<br>
</font></font><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.AMFClub.com">www.AMFClub.com</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/11/2020 9:15 AM, Mark J Bradakis
via Mgs wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:356ffecc-5e60-05eb-34af-ec26c9109ce1@bradakis.com">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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But for now, enjoy and stay healthy.
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<br>
mjb.
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