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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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