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Re: [Fot] 30 years. 3 decades.

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Subject: Re: [Fot] 30 years. 3 decades.
From: Joe Alexander via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:20:14 -0500
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> On Apr 11, 2021, at 8:22 AM, Brad Eells via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> Great work Mark. Iâ??ve been with you for 2/3â??s of that time. First on 
> the general Triumph list, then I believe Greg Petrolati nominated me to FOT 
> some time in 2001.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Brad Eells
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Apr 11, 2021, at 6:07 AM, Mark J Bradakis via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> 
>> 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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