Mark,
Many, many thanks for keeping this list functioning.
Duncan Charlton
1121 Lower Elgin Rd
Elgin, Texas 78621
USA
> On Apr 11, 2017, at 3:32 AM, Mark J Bradakis via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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