[Gocamino] inactive forum

[Robert Spenger]

Sil,

You didn't provide a link for Ivar's website. I am familiar with it  
and I  am sure that I could find it again easily, but it  would be  
handy to provide it for the Gocamino forum members.

Bob S.


On Feb 18, 2009, at 5:14 AM, Sil wrote:

You need to click on 'Reply to All' is you want the post to go to  
GoCamino.
The problem, as I see it, is that GoCamino is based on the American  
Pilgrim's website and does not allow you to search old questions -  
like Santiagobis or Pilgrimage-to-Santiago.  This is the most acive  
camino forum with multiple posts every day right across all the  
specific topics from an Introduction slot, 13 routes in Spain, 5 in  
France and 11 topics related to all routes.  They have over 3000  
members (obviously not all active all of the time!) who started with  
the forum about 5 years ago, were dormant for a while and then return  
as active members when they start planning their next camino.
The forum has a cloth badge that will identify members when walking a  
camino.  Very sociable, chatty, has a number of moderators but very  
rarely needs any intervention and the founder, Ivar Revke, is  
presently setting up a Pilgrim Centre in Santiago that will offer many  
services to the pilgrims, inlcuding storage facilities for parcels  
posted ahead.  Very useful since the Correos started keeping goods for  
only 2 weeks in Santiago.
Sil