August doldrums

[Robert E. Spenger]

I find it amusing to see the current group going through the same old
concern about the dearth of group e-mail in August. It hasn't been
consistent every year, but going back 5 or 6 years to the old UCLA listserv
it was typical for the camino e-mail traffic to drop off in August. (As the
pilgrim traffic on the camino itself climbs?)

This phenomenon is well known to journalists. For some reason or other,
perhaps because many people are on vacation, the volume of news falls off
during August and the newspapers end up digging up all sorts of oddball
stories just to fill in the space.

regard