[Spridgets] Shining Silver

Hal Faulkner frog.aye at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 17:43:25 MDT 2016


What Rick said.

Hal

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Congratulations on 25 years!  Pretty impressive.  This list has been an
> important part of my car life for many years. but unfortunately it seems to
> be slipping away.  Fewer and fewer messages these days.  Too many of us are
> old farts and the younger guys seem to prefer the fancy colors and graphics
> of the web based car forums.
>
> Frank left us almost exactly five years ago and this list hasn't been the
> same ever since.  What I wouldn't give to read another rant on Chinese
> dung-forged parts.  :-)
>
>
> Sent from my keyboard
>
> > On Apr 8, 2016, at 4:14 PM, Mark J Bradakis via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
> >
> > A few years back Karen and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary,
> our Silver Anniversary as they call it.
> >
> > And coming up in just a few days on April 11th is Team.Net's Silver
> Anniversary.  Yes, on April 11, 1991 the domain was registered and went on
> the air.  In truth, it existed before that in the form of two mailing
> lists, british-cars and autox which were outgrowths of rec.autos Usenet
> groups. Murky history there.
> >
> > But Team.Net as we know it today has been around for a quarter of a
> century. Of the 60 some lists on the server, most are inactive. I may take
> some time this summer to clean up and remove any lists that have not seen
> any posts for N months, the value of N to be determined.  Some lists,
> though, are still going strong, soldiering on from the days when Team.Net
> lists and website were at the leading edge, the only game in town.  It was
> estimated that at the 1997 SCCA Solo II Nationals, their Silver
> Anniversary, roughly 2/3 of the 1,000+ participants were on the autox
> list.  If you check out http://autox.team.net you will find many pages
> last updated about 24.99 years ago, though, hardly leading edge now.  One
> of these days ...
> >
> > Who could have foreseen how a simple stream of 1s and 0s could be such a
> part of the lives of so many people, the catalyst for enduring friendships,
> a formidable source of knowledge and inspiration?  How many cars are on the
> road these days instead of the scrap heap because of us and our efforts
> over decades?
> >
> > Happy Birthday to us. and carry on!
> >
> > mjb.
> >
> > ps:  I am sending this out a few days early because on Monday I will be
> on the road somewhere between Phoenix and Salt Lake City.  I'll look into
> the multi-hour delay in posting when I return.
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