[Shop-talk] 30 years. 3 decades.

[Scott Hall]

That's amazing, Mark.

I'm trying to remember my original subscription date. I read about
spitfires at autox in "British Car Monthly", if memory serves. 1992-ish, maybe?

Then Spitfires, or majordomo, had a list of all the *other* lists on
team.net.

I remember moving from...aol, maybe, to a different isp, then another,
having to re-subscribe each time.

That was a nice little old guy story, there. Wow.

Best to everybody.

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 8:05 AM Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> wrote:

> 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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