t-and-f: Re: What's so good?
I'll tell you what's so good: As I've written more than once, it's the unparalled value of this list as a resource for information about our sport. As Dan, Mike, George and Walt have just demonstrated to me again, whatever question I might have about t-and-f events I'm unfamiliar with, all I have to do is ask and someone will provide the answer. What's bad? If there's anything that has become disappointing about the list over the years, it's the decline in participation and especially in posting of results and interpretations of unexpected outcomes. Today, when I checked with majordomo, there were 674 members on the list. I'm sure I can remember a time when there were more than two thousand, perhaps three thousand? Why the decline? Perhaps it's related to the reason for no longer posting results--with so many now having high-speed web access, it's easy to search out the results we're each interested in. Sometimes. What else is bad? Anyone who has posted to the list in the last two years will know that immediately following receipt of the copy of the mailing, he/she will also receive a notification from mailer-daemon that: Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: john dixon,InterAct (The name was not found at the remote site. Check that the name has been entered correctly.) If our 673 current members still includes at least one supervisor, might it be possible to find a way to unsubscribe john dixon,Interact? Thanks. Two last observations, this time on today's events. I know it's still considered to be bad taste to give results of events that will later be televised, so I won't comment on the women's marathon. For all those Canadians who don't want to know until they can watch the video on CBC at midnight: enjoy! Maybe it's fair game, though, to wonder how the men's 5,000 meters has changed so very much over the years that of today's 15 finalists, none is from North America and only Marius Bakkus of Norway is from Europe. Pre, I hope you're not watching.
Re: t-and-f: Re: What's so good?
--- Roger Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll tell you what's so good: As I've written more than once, it's the unparalled value of this list as a resource for information about our sport ... all I have to do is ask and someone will provide the answer. I still consider it the best such resource, but it's more of an encyclopedia these days than a steady discussion. Got a question? Send it off to the list and some track savvy librarian dusts off the old books and looks it up lickety split. Too many other places to discuss things and get instant results, but here is one place you don't have to sift through the rubbish to get a straight answer. If our 673 current members still includes at least one supervisor, might it be possible to find a way to unsubscribe john dixon,Interact? Here, here! Dan http://AbleDesign.com - Web Design Custom Programming http://Run-Down.com - 10,000 Running Links, Fantasy TF @o Dan Kaplan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\/ ^- ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) _/ \ \/\ (503)370-9969 phone/fax / / Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: t-and-f: Re: What's so good?
I'll tell what else is so good...the absolutely WONDERFUL job that the people at www.wcsn.com and Eurovision did with the World Championships webcast. I actually pretty much gave up on trying to watch the PAX-TV daily summaries because they were just so inferior, even though they were using the Eurovision feeds. I started watching a bit of the PAX summary today up until the the start of the men's 5000m and then I just gave up because I knew what it would be like. Hell, Dwight Stones does the best with what they give him, though. I'd like to hear his real thoughts on the winning height in today's HJ. But I never would've thought that Steve Ovett would be such an excellent presenter, either. I think Dwight should just team up with those guys full-time and they would have a great broadcast team. They did a superb job with the marathon today...I watched every minute of it today, didn't hit the fast forward once and it was worth every second of it. Radcliffe put on a simply awesome display of strength and confidence but Tomescu and Ndereba ran courageous, gutsy races. The only thing which I really missed were some post-event interviews. But we can find them elsewhere on the net, at least for that particular race. One of the best things was the fact that since they covered everything, one could see the utter joy on the faces of these athletes as they did their laps of honor and the fact that they covered all of the medal ceremonies. (Did everyone catch Drechsler and Frankie Fredricks today getting their special awards, too? That was great.) I ended up not fast forwarding through very much of these broadcasts because the actual action and the presentation were well worth the extra time. It is great to know that WCSN is going to cover the remaining Golden League events, too. This is the wave of the future for those of us in the USA who are starved for decent international track and field coverage. (If anyone has figured out how to capture these webcast files to the hard drive, please email me. I've tried a few of my tools to no avail so far.) bob
