[Gocamino] backpack45.com/camino2 link banned from AmericanPilgrims.com links

[Leslie Gilmour]

I have sent this message three time and cannot see it appearing on the list
- am I being blocked out - if this is the case would the moderator let me
know?  Thanks.

I don't often write here, but this is reason to.

I think that it is a good idea to have your link on their site, I have
started to split links on my site into commercial and non, mainly because
the list was getting too long.  Some people want a tour guide and everything
arranged for them on the Camino and I see nothing wrong with that.  There
are however Camino purest out there who never want to move from their path,
that is fine I have no problem with them - but please just let others be
also.

I went on the Camino thinking that pilgrims would be different from other
people - I did not find that the case.  The same type of person who annoyed
me at home annoyed me on the Camino - not their fault, mine.  So the result
for me was to practice more tolerance. 

Getting to and from the Camino is a commercial enterprise, it always has
been and will be - if you believe different have a read of Chaucer. 

There is a whole list of commercial links on their site - newspapers,
airlines, television; this is not about commercialism - I believe we hit the
Camino purest problem again - a little bit of tolerance can go a long way.

I own a site on the Camino - there are about 10,000 people visiting it every
month and I will put any Camino site there that I think will be useful to my
visitors.

If you have the choice to do the right thing or the kind thing - try kind...

All the best
Leslie Gilmour
http://www.caminodesantiago.me.uk



-----Original Message-----
From: gocamino-bounces at oakapple.net [mailto:gocamino-bounces at oakapple.net]
On Behalf Of Marcus Wilder
Sent: 26 November 2007 18:52
To: Ralph Alcorn
Cc: gocamino at oakapple.net
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] backpack45.com/camino2 link banned from
AmericanPilgrims.com links

You are not a member of the clique.  Reason and logic are not the 
issues.  You are not a member of the clique.

On Nov 26, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Ralph Alcorn wrote:

> When reviewing the greatly improved americanpilgrims.com website, I 
> noticed
> they had dropped the link to our camino pages at
> http://www.backpack45.com/camino2.html . Thinking this was an 
> oversight, I
> contacted the webmaster, who told me it was policy.
>
>> From the new american pilgrims internet resources page:
>
> "Please be aware however that our Board of Directors has established a
> policy against listing purely commercial sites, this while fully 
> recognizing
> that there some such are sites and services that our visitors will 
> find to
> be of great use."
>
> The webmaster agreed that our link did not appear to be commercial, and
> passed the link up to the board for review.
>
> Their reply, which I received yesterday:
>
> "Though your site has a great deal of information of interest to the
> long-distance hiker/backpacker, including the Camino de Santiago, it's
> commercial orientation as the home page of a publishing venture is not
> consistent with our policies.  Therefore, we will not re-establish the 
> link
> with backpack45. "
>
> It is hard for me to believe that the membership would agree that this 
> link
> and its two additional Camino pages do not provide useful Camino 
> information
> and  should be banned. We have been providing what we thought was a 
> service
> since 2003. I believe that for several years it was the only U.S. 
> based side
> with current Camino information.
>
> I think the board is out of touch with the membership, but don't have 
> any
> easy way to poll the membership, so am putting this out on gocamino. 
> If you
> know someone on the board, and think that they did the right thing, 
> let them
> know, so they can be a little more comfortable with their decision. If 
> you
> disagree, also let them know.
>
> If you think it is inappropriate for me to bring this up on the forum,
> please let me know, off list preferably.
>
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Ralph Alcorn
> http://www.backpack45.com/camino2.html
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