<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Mark,<div>Thanks for keeping team.net going all these years and providing a way for people to stay in touch and find parts and advice for their weird car projects. I first joined the rec.autox usenet group in the late 80’s, when it seemed like a miracle to be able to post a message and get a reply back from someone on the other side of the continent, in just hours!</div><div><br></div><div>In some ways it’s more of a challenge now because there are many regional groups that each have their own online community, and it’s pretty much impossible to keep tabs on all the different forums, and Facebook groups.</div><div><br></div><div>That’s why I’ll be sticking around here as long as you keep the lights on.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Theo<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 13, 2026, at 5:16 PM, Stephen Waybright via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="ydp2ad4adb6yahoo-style-wrap" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Having always lived in a low Tiger density areas, I relied on this during the years before the facebook site took root.</div><div class="ydp2ad4adb6signature"><div><span style="line-height: 1.22;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;">Stephen Waybright</div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div id="ydp4b759a57yahoo_quoted_7119544120" class="ydp4b759a57yahoo_quoted" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div>On Monday, April 13, 2026 at 04:11:05 PM CDT, steve wick <<a href="mailto:srwick@hotmail.com">srwick@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div id="ydp4b759a57yiv5456960928"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp4b759a57yiv5456960928elementToProof" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for keeping it going. I love seeing the emails show up in my inbox.</div><div class="ydp4b759a57yiv5456960928elementToProof" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp4b759a57yiv5456960928elementToProof" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Steve</div><div id="ydp4b759a57yiv5456960928appendonsend"></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="none"></div><hr style="display: inline-block; width: 620.328125px;"><div id="ydp4b759a57yiv5456960928yqt14207" class="ydp4b759a57yiv5456960928yqt8439947304"><div id="ydp4b759a57yiv5456960928divRplyFwdMsg"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> Tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net">tigers-bounces@autox.team.net</a>> on behalf of Owain Lloyd <<a href="mailto:owain.lloyd@gmail.com">owain.lloyd@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 12, 2026 7:38 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Mark Bradakis <<a href="mailto:mark@bradakis.com">mark@bradakis.com</a>><br clear="none"><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net">tigers@autox.team.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net">tigers@autox.team.net</a>><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tigers] 35 Years!</div><div style="direction: ltr;"> </div></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Very cool. Shame it’s not as active as it was when I first joined 20 years ago (can hardly believe it was 20 years)</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Il giorno dom 12 apr 2026 alle 12:31 Mark Bradakis via Tigers <<a shape="rect" id="ydp4b759a57yiv5456960928OWA26cd4a6b-184a-4f59-5c5a-bd439de0d3e6" href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" class="ydp4b759a57yiv5456960928OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> ha scritto:</div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><div>Nearly half my life! Team dot Net went on the air 35 years ago today,<br clear="none">April 11th, 1991. Been through a lot of ups and downs over the years,<br clear="none">many different computers, different ISPs, but almost always there. I<br clear="none">won't go into the times that ISP problems shut it down for days, or even<br clear="none">weeks at a time.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But it is still here, still on the air, still serving the purpose I have<br clear="none">always upheld, connecting like minded users to mostly car stuff. And<br clear="none">always for free. I do remember back in the beginning it was pretty<br clear="none">expensive to run. Fast, at home internet was not widely available. And<br clear="none">the first server, one of the earliest PCs in the valley to run at over<br clear="none">100 Mhz ( Yes, MEGA Hertz! ) cost me $2,500 dollars. Luckily paid for<br clear="none">by generous contributions from list members.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Time marches on, and so does Team Net. I'll keep it going as long as I<br clear="none">can, health permitting. 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