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
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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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