And what a long strange trip it has been.
> On Apr 11, 2021, at 10:24, Joe Alexander via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> On Apr 11, 2021, at 8:22 AM, Brad Eells via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> 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
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>>>> 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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