[TR] Cheers!

[Roger Elliott]

Great job Mark!!
I have gotten so much useful information from the lists, I don't know how I would have managed to keep my car running without it.

Roger Elliott

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com>
>Sent: Apr 11, 2017 2:29 AM
>To: "triumphs at autox.team.net" <triumphs at autox.team.net>, spitfires at autox.team.net, 6pack at autox.team.net
>Subject: [TR] Cheers!
>
>Raise a glass to Team.Net!  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 rec.autos 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.  Team.Net 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 Team.Net email lists, who love to share 
>their exploits, their frustrations, their lives with like minded 
>individuals.
>
>Happy Birthday to us.
>
>mjb.
>
>
>** triumphs at autox.team.net **
>