<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Thank you for all you do! Much appreciated.</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Jim<br class=""></span><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 11, 2020, at 10:50 AM, Will Seay via Tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" class="">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">Mark, thanks for all you do. At 66, you still have a long way to go. I'm 78 and my one-owner (that's me) Tiger and I are still on the road. Happy BD MJB and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://team.net/" class="">Team.net</a>.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">Will - 382001570<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><a href="mailto:Tigers@embarqmail.com" target="_blank" class="">Tigers@embarqmail.com</a></div></div></div><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 9:08 AM Mark J Bradakis via Tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" class="">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">April 11th. As many of you know, the domain<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://team.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">team.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was officially<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia. I have been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">managing the mailing lists on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://autox.team.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">autox.team.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>since then, actually for a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">while before that. I took over from Jim Muller, who took over from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Dale Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years. Actually<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">I may have some in my office, on 1/4 inch tape cassettes. Every now and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">then I consider trying to revive some of the old HP-UX boxes I have to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">see if I can still read any of those tapes. Maybe someday.<br class=""><br class="">Anyway, in the beginning I was routing everything through the servers at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">the University of Utah Computer Science Department, where I was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">employed. When my fellow sys admins started noticing just how much<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">network traffic there was on a certain box, my boss strongly suggested I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">make other arrangements. So I went about getting a network connection<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">at home. Back then, it was not that easy, or cheap. And as I recall,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">the first dedicated Team Net server was an HP box with one of the first<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">100+ megahertz CPUs, and even with a deal through HP, who worked closely<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">with the U in those days the system set me back about $2,500. Hardware<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">has improved since then. And that money didn't all come out of my<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">pocket, I initiated a fund drive among the list members and got a great<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">response. Back then it was all checks in the mail, and I mailed a thank<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">you postcard to every contributor, or at least most of them, no doubt I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">missed a few. And for some time there was an annual fund drive to cover<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">the rather high cost of having sufficient bandwidth from my house.<br class=""><br class="">So here it is 29 and just everybody has fast network available to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">them. I dropped the fund drives some years back, though folks do<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">continue to contribute to the cause. Now a few clicks in Paypal can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">take care of it, though some still prefer to send checks. Yep, things<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">are different now. And with the Covid-19 pandemic, a LOT different. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">But the Team Net mailing lists are still chugging along, providing those<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">spending more time at home a bit of distraction, entertainment or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">education as we keep our beloved vehicles rolling along the roads.<br class=""><br class="">I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">have left. April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">certainly won't live forever. And I fear that when I die, Team Net will<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">die. Sigh.<br class=""><br class="">But for now, enjoy and stay healthy.<br class=""><br class="">mjb.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank" class="">tigers@autox.team.net</a><br class=""><br class="">Donate:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br class="">Archive:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br class=""><br class="">Unsubscribe:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/tigers@embarqmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/tigers@embarqmail.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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