[TR] Birthday

Steve Thornton sothornton at stevethorntonlaw.com
Sat Apr 11 08:22:13 MDT 2020


TeriAnn et al-


We are all indebted to Mark and those who have offered help throughout the years. There are no words good enough to thank Mark for his time and expertise.

So, I will simply say- Happy Birthday.

Sent from my iPhone


Steven O. Thornton
Attorney at Law
Thornton Law Office
1011 Lehman Avenue
Bowling Green, KY. 42103
270-781-6630


On Apr 11, 2020, at 9:04 AM, TeriAnn J. Wakeman <tjwakeman at gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/11/20 6:02 AM, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
April 11th. As many of you know, the domain team.net was officially registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia. I have been managing the mailing lists on autox.team.net since then, actually for a while before that. I took over from Jim Muller, who took over from Dale Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years.

Dale Cook worked at Apollo Computers and had an MGB he kept in a single car garage that had a dirt floor (if memory serves). In 1987 (maybe late 86) I was actively asking TR3 related questions on rec.autos when I received an email from Dale. He was starting an email group for British cars and asked if I wanted to join. Thus the British car mail list was formed for all British cars. A discussion during the first year was what to call th group. Everyone liked SOL. the original thought was Sons of Lucas. I of course objected and it was decided Scions of Lucas would be the official group name.  The acronym LBC was coined of Little British Car which never felt quite right for the Land Rover and Bentley crowds with Large British Cars.

At the end of 1990 or very early 1991 Bill Caloccia, a Land Rover owner, created the Land Rover Owners (LRO) mail list. This was the first marque list to be split off from the original British Car mail list. LRO still exists today. Not long afterwords the original British Car mail list spawned individual marque list for just about every British car marque. Some survive today, some died young.


I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I have left. April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I certainly won't live forever. And I fear that when I die, Team Net will die. Sigh.

Happy birthday Mark, but I consider 66 to be yet on the young side. My suggestion is to search for a younger computer savvy person who could take over the lists, move the lists to a hosting company, and set the domains & hosting  up for dual ownership. That way when you do pass your designated replacement could carry on. Better yet, do that then be healthy for a long time yet.

TeriAnn

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