Beautiful weather outside, a clean and crisp autumn afternoon, it would be great to be out driving about in a sporty little convertible. But here I sit in the basement whacking on the Team.Net servers. Okay, I did pop up to the post office in my Mark 1 Spitfire earlier, so I got a bit of fun in.
You may have noticed an interruption in service over the night. Bits should be flowing once again, as getting this message should indicate. And if you've been on the list for more than six months, you may recall the April 11th message "Seven come Eleven" I sent out, requesting funding for new server parts and such. If you don't remember, feel free to point a web client at http://www.team.net/archive/british-cars, search for "seven come eleven" Well, this message is being sent from the new server, I've finally managed to get it online and working, for the most part. So once a few more minor things are cleaned up, I can concentrate on other improvements, like fully populating the archives and figuring out why the search results display the index and database files in with the messages. And getting a database or scripts or whatever in place so that you only see administrative messages like this once, not once for every list subscription in your name. But we should now have enough disk space and processing power to get through a few years. We shall see. Last time I counted, autox.team.net was shipping out about 3 to 4 million messages a month, hopefully it won't get much busier than that. For those of you who have been longtime subscribers, you may vaguely recall the original 'move the server home' message sent out around Columbus Day, 1999, and the subsequent spring and fall fund drives to collect donations for the monthly operating expenses and such. Yes, it is fund drive time again. Don't worry, this on is on me. The spring drive was pretty successful, there's a few bucks left. In truth, I still have a small stack or two of envelopes I've not yet opened, or have yet to acknowledge. Sometimes I wonder how *any* of this works under the care of such a disorganized, flaky procrastinator such as myself. So it goes. If you wish to contribute anyway, feel free to send a donation via Paypal to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or send a check, payable to Fat Chance Garage to the postal address Fat Chance Garage PO Box 58333 Salt Lake City, UT 84158 If you want to charge it on Visa or Mastercard, send me an email, I'll let you know the procedure. mjb. /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
