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Thank you for the work, Mark! Great job!!!
Shawn Frank
The Vintage Triumph Magazine - Editor
North American Triumphs (FKA Spitfire & GT6 Magazine) - Owner
Des Moines Concours d'Elegance - Recruiting Lead
Continued Legacy Photo - Owner
Iowa British Car Club
FOT/VTR#94692/NASS#746
Drive Away Cancer Iowa - Driver
515-339-4228
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 8:07 AM Mark J Bradakis via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>
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> 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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<div dir=3D"auto">Thank you for the work, Mark! Great job!!!<br><br><div da=
ta-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature">Shawn Frank<br>The Vintage Triumph Magazin=
e - Editor<br>North American Triumphs (FKA Spitfire & GT6 Magazine) - O=
wner<br>Des Moines Concours d'Elegance - Recruiting Lead<br>Continued L=
egacy Photo - Owner<br>Iowa British Car Club<br>FOT/VTR#94692/NASS#746<br>D=
rive Away Cancer Iowa - Driver<br>515-339-4228</div></div><br><div class=3D=
"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 8=
:07 AM Mark J Bradakis via Fot <<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net";>fo=
t@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" =
style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On =
this day 30 years ago Team.Net came into being.=C2=A0 The British-cars <br>
mailing list was already going strong, an offshoot from rec.autos Usenet <b=
r>
group.=C2=A0 Dale Cook, Jim Muller, then me. Team.net went from 2 lists at =
<br>
the beginning, autox and british-cars, and exploded into nearly 70 <br>
different lists with something like 15,000 individuals subscribed at its <b=
r>
peak.=C2=A0 For a while it was pretty much the only game in town.=C2=A0 As =
I <br>
recall, when I attended the SCCA Solo II Nationals 25th Anniversary <br>
event, something like 2/3rds of the 1,000+ entrants were on the autox list.=
<br>
<br>
And it amazes me that with such a scatterbrained procrastinator like me <br=
>
behind the curtain it is still on the air. It is a lot quieter these <br>
days, much better software handle many of the janitorial tasks <br>
automatically.=C2=A0 Back in the beginning, I had to do *everything* by han=
d, <br>
so to speak. Subscribes, unsubscribes, errors, I was spending 10, 15, 20 <b=
r>
hours a week maintaining the server.=C2=A0 The first server had a 100 MHz <=
br>
processor.=C2=A0 Things have changed.=C2=A0 Back then just having a fast ne=
twork <br>
connection at a residence was rare and expensive.=C2=A0 Good old DSL.=C2=A0=
I <br>
remember that time when my service provider went belly up, and team net <br=
>
was off the air for 11 days straight.=C2=A0 I don't miss those days at =
all.<br>
<br>
Anyway, happy birthday to those of you still here.=C2=A0 I hope I can <br>
continue to provide a useful service for years to come.<br>
<br>
mjb.<br>
<br>
<br>
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