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<div style="font-size: 10pt; "><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Hmm how many years....wow! Friends, escapades, and a tattoo too! Larry kept saying " ouch"!</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">And over time so many enthusiasts.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Thank you Mark!</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Chuck</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></p><div id="SignatureBox" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Sent from my LG Mobile</div></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt; "><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">------ Original message------</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>From: </b>Larry Macy via Spridgets<spridgets@autox.team.net></spridgets@autox.team.net></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Date: </b>Tue, Apr 11, 2017 10:24 PM</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>To: </b>Mark J Bradakis;</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Cc: </b>Spridgets net;</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [Spridgets] Cheers!</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></p></div><pre>Wow Mark. I joined the MG list about 92 or 3 and then the Spridget list on it’s first day in Oct 97. What a ride it’s been. I don’t do Facebook so I have no idea what is available there. This group has led me to friends in my area and across the planet. It has been great fun and I personally thank you for your efforts as a Sys Admin, I understand what goes into keeping things like this going long term. For the memoriesWhat a long strange trip it’s been and nobody rides for free!!Larry> On Apr 11, 2017, at 04:24 AM, Mark J Bradakis via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net> wrote:> > Raise a glass to <a href="http://Team.Net">Team.Net</a>! April 11, 1991 the domain went on the air. 26 years ago, a quarter of a century. Hard to believe it has been that long. In truth the foundation was laid some years before then, with USENET <a href="http://rec.au">rec.au</a>tos newsgroups evolving into what became the British cars and the Autox lists. Richard Welty, Dale Cook and Jim Muller are some names from back than.> > Somehow I got involved while I was working at the University of Utah. It got to the point where the British car and autocross email traffic hosted from my desktop machine at work became a very noticeable source of network traffic. The powers that be STRONGLY suggested that such was not official university business and should be discontinued. So I moved the lists to a server at my house. Back then it wasn't quite so simple and so cheap. I sent out a plea for funding and got a great response. Thanks to the U of U having a good relationship with Hewlett-Packard I was able to procure one of the first machines with over a 100 megahertz CPU, a 20 megabyte hard drive and something like 8 megs of RAM. All for about a mere $2,500 dollars.> > Things have progressed since then. Still hosted from my house, still taking a bit of my time every day. Hard to believe that a scatterbrained procrastinator like me has been behind the curtain for all these years, keeping it going. <a href="http://Team.Net">Team.Net</a> is not as active as it was some years ago. The autocross list is basically dead now, but when I took the Killer Spit to the SCCA Solo Nationals in 1997, over half the drivers there were subscribers to the autocross list.> > Back then there were not many choices. Now there are myriads of automotive related web sites, forums and such available. But there are still many folks who enjoy the <a href="http://Team.Net">Team.Net</a> email lists, who love to share their exploits, their frustrations, their lives with like minded individuals.> > Happy Birthday to us.> > mjb.> > ------------------------> ><a href="mailto: spridgets@autox.team.net"> spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> > Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a>> Suggested annual donation: $12.75> > Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/archive">http://www.team.net/archive</a>> Forums: <a href="http://www.team.net/forums">http://www.team.net/forums</a>> Unsubscribe/Manage: http<a href="mailto:://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/lmacy@mac.com">://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/lmacy@mac.com</a><a href="mailto:------------------------spridgets@autox.team.netDon">------------------------spridgets@autox.team.netDon</a>ate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.htmlSuggested">http://www.team.net/donate.htmlSuggested</a> annual donation: $12.75Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/archiveForums:">http://www.team.net/archiveForums:</a> <a href="http://www.team.net/forumsUnsubscribe/Manage:">http://www.team.net/forumsUnsubscribe/Manage:</a> http<a href="mailto:://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/crusaderchuck55@aol.com">://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spridgets/crusaderchuck55@aol.com</a></spridgets@autox.team.net></pre></div></body></html>