[Shop-talk] 30 years. 3 decades.

[eric at megageek.com]

Darn,

I actually had this occasion in my calendar (I put it there maybe 10 or so 
years ago.)  but I had the date as tomorrow.

I can't even begin to calculate the valve of this list has been to me over 
the decades.

I'm just glad it is still here.    Thanks Mark, and thanks to all the 
members that made this list what it is today!

Eric "Inch" "Moose" "Mule" Petrevich



From:   Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com>
To:     "Shop-talk at autox.team.net" <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
Date:   04/11/2021 09:05 AM
Subject:        [Shop-talk] 30 years. 3 decades.
Sent by:        "Shop-talk" <shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net>



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.

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.

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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