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<div dir="ltr">Mark</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The feeling of "Thank You" crosses our minds and enters our thoughts many more times than the words reach you. For all you have done and continue to do, especially that which we don't know and can't see, THANK YOU.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Terry</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">****************************************************<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, April 11, 2021, 6:04:14 AM PDT, Mark J Bradakis via Tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">On this day 30 years ago Team.Net came into being. The British-cars <br></div><div dir="ltr">mailing list was already going strong, an offshoot from rec.autos Usenet <br></div><div dir="ltr">group. Dale Cook, Jim Muller, then me. Team.net went from 2 lists at <br></div><div dir="ltr">the beginning, autox and british-cars, and exploded into nearly 70 <br></div><div dir="ltr">different lists with something like 15,000 individuals subscribed at its <br></div><div dir="ltr">peak. For a while it was pretty much the only game in town. As I <br></div><div dir="ltr">recall, when I attended the SCCA Solo II Nationals 25th Anniversary <br></div><div dir="ltr">event, something like 2/3rds of the 1,000+ entrants were on the autox list.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">And it amazes me that with such a scatterbrained procrastinator like me <br></div><div dir="ltr">behind the curtain it is still on the air. It is a lot quieter these <br></div><div dir="ltr">days, much better software handle many of the janitorial tasks <br></div><div dir="ltr">automatically. Back in the beginning, I had to do *everything* by hand, <br></div><div dir="ltr">so to speak. Subscribes, unsubscribes, errors, I was spending 10, 15, 20 <br></div><div dir="ltr">hours a week maintaining the server. The first server had a 100 MHz <br></div><div dir="ltr">processor. Things have changed. Back then just having a fast network <br></div><div dir="ltr">connection at a residence was rare and expensive. Good old DSL. I <br></div><div dir="ltr">remember that time when my service provider went belly up, and team net <br></div><div dir="ltr">was off the air for 11 days straight. I don't miss those days at all.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here. I hope I can <br></div><div dir="ltr">continue to provide a useful service for years to come.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">mjb.<br></div></div>
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