WNBL on Yahoo!Groups
I badly hadn’t looked at the WNBL until I found a few accounts for teams and players on Twitter. The teams weren’t on my list and I had no data for them. There are no fans listing teams as an interest on LiveJournal clones or on blogger. There are a few people who list teams as interests on LiveJournal and bebo. I’ll eventually get around to posting that data. First, I wanted to look at Yahoo!Groups.
There are no mailing lists dedicated to any specific team. There are two dedicated to the WNBL. They are wnbl and pastandpresentwnblplayers. Both have three members. The second has never had a post made to it. The first has only had one post.
While there are no lists dedicated to specific teams in the WNBL, there are several mailing lists dedicated to Australian female basketball players. One such list is tullybevilaqua. Another is laurenjacksonrules. Neither of these lists are currently active. (Both are being over run by spam and have been for years.) The lists don’t highlight the player’s career in the WNBL but rather seem to focus on the athlete playing in US’s WNBA. Given that, it is hard to slot these player based lists by team.
I’m not entirely certain what it says about Australian women’s basketball that there is an absence of lists for teams but not for players. Did mailing lists predate a greater emergence of the WNBL? Are people more interested in star athletes than in any sort of team allegiance? Is the focus on Australian players who made it into the WNBA more of an issue of Australian pride in players who made it on a big stage? It could be all of those.