[TR] 30 years. 3 decades.

[Paul Tegler]

...having done the same for nearly 21 years (well, list, + chat + photo 
archives+..... )  congrats are due to you Mark, for retaining your 
sanity this long.   (or is it a mark of the insanity we consider the 
norm as we age?  :-)

Congratulations and adulations. HBD  autox

ptegler


On 4/11/2021 8:58 AM, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
> On this day 30 years ago Team.Net came into being.  The British-cars 
> mailing list was already going strong, an offshoot from rec.autos 
> Usenet group.  Dale Cook, Jim Muller, then me. Team.net went from 2 
> lists at the beginning, autox and british-cars, and exploded into 
> nearly 70 different lists with something like 15,000 individuals 
> subscribed at its peak.  For a while it was pretty much the only game 
> in town.  As I recall, when I attended the SCCA Solo II Nationals 25th 
> Anniversary event, something like 2/3rds of the 1,000+ entrants were 
> on the autox list.
>
> And it amazes me that with such a scatterbrained procrastinator like 
> me behind the curtain it is still on the air. It is a lot quieter 
> these days, much better software handle many of the janitorial tasks 
> automatically.  Back in the beginning, I had to do *everything* by 
> hand, so to speak.  Subscribes, unsubscribes, errors, I was spending 
> 10, 15, 20 hours a week maintaining the server.  The first server had 
> a 100 MHz processor.  Things have changed.  Back then just having a 
> fast network connection at a residence was rare and expensive.  Good 
> old DSL.  I remember that time when my service provider went belly up, 
> and team net was off the air for 11 days straight.  I don't miss those 
> days at all.
>
> Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here.  I hope I can 
> continue to provide a useful service for years to come.
>
> mjb.
>
>
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