FTA Sports Feed Information

[Sadoun]

The following yahoo groups have good FTA sports feeds and backhaul information:

satfeed : SAT Feeds Pan Atlantic
backhaul : Discussion related to and realtime sightings of backhaul and other ITC feeds of sports events on satellite.

[Powrline]

Thanks for the sports feed information.

I subscribed to the 2 groups that you posted above and it is a testimony to the ease of use that the Sadoun Forums provides.

Yahoo groups has you going through quite a few screens just to find that, the information that you were looking for, may or may not have been what you thought that it was.

Thank you Sadoun for the Ease Of Operation in your Forums. (Click, go, read!)

Sincerely,
powrline

[wejones]

Originally Posted by Powrline

Thanks for the sports feed information.

I subscribed to the 2 groups that you posted above and it is a testimony to the ease of use that the Sadoun Forums provides.

Yahoo groups has you going through quite a few screens just to find that, the information that you were looking for, may or may not have been what you thought that it was.

Thank you Sadoun for the Ease Of Operation in your Forums. (Click, go, read!)

Sincerely,
powrline

Which format you prefer kind of depends on whether you are an active emailer or an active web surfer I guess. For something like sports feeds, I prefer the Yahoo groups. They are not really primarily best used as web forums. They are better used as mail lists. I belong to several Yahoo groups, and basically never go to the web page, but instead read all the messages via email. When I'm looking for a specific sports feed, I usually put my email program on automatic, where every 90 sec or so it downloads messages, and alerts me with a tone if a new message comes in. That way I can be surfing the sat looking for the feed, and if someone else finds the feed, my computer will warn me. I generally use the backhaul list, although there is another sportsfeed group that is analog only, but that list turned private and I didn't join it, so I'm not sure how good it is.

Anyway, for quick response for sports feeds, I prefer mailing lists to forums.

[Powrline]

I can see where your method makes alot of sense. I don't check my e-mail much, just because I don't have alot of people e-mailing. However I am rather web page active.

I think that I will change my prefs in Yahoo to send the e-mails, so that way I can read and delete that which I am not interested in and keep those that will be helpful.

When signing up for yahoo groups, I didn't understand why I would want to have every new post emailed to me, but you explanation makes it clear.

powrline

[wejones]

Originally Posted by Powrline

I can see where your method makes alot of sense. I don't check my e-mail much, just because I don't have alot of people e-mailing. However I am rather web page active.

I think that I will change my prefs in Yahoo to send the e-mails, so that way I can read and delete that which I am not interested in and keep those that will be helpful.

When signing up for yahoo groups, I didn't understand why I would want to have every new post emailed to me, but you explanation makes it clear.

powrline

Well back in the old days (when kids had to hike 3 miles through 2' deep snow to get to school ) it used to be that there weren't any forums, just mailing lists. Part of the preference thing on my part is that I've been using mailing lists for years, and I'm used to getting lots of emails every day, and I don't like having to remember to go to forums to look for new messages. Other people don't like getting so many messages clogging their mail accounts, and they prefer forums.
The Yahoo groups try to function both as email lists and forums but they are really just mailing lists with web access. Initially, most of the groups at Yahoo started out as pure mailing lists, but Yahoo bought up these lists, and just put them into a web friendly package.
The first satellite mailing list I belonged to started out as a spinoff of a video list hosted by White Sands missle range (back back before there were .com and .net addresses, and the internet was just government and academic sites), and it was hosted at North Dakota state university, then they lost the account there, and it shifted into a commercial mailing list site, which was bought out by another similar site, which was then bought out by Yahoo. Yahoo lets you use groups somewhat as forums, but they aren't nearly as easy to use as most pure forums.