[Gocamino] maintaining gocamino's usefulness

[David Hough on gocamino]

The best thing any electronic mailing list participant can do to maintain
the quality of discourse is to ignore anything he or she doesn't like.
Second best is to express any criticism of other postings or posters
by private email directly to the relevant person.      Almost everybody
else doesn't care who is right or wrong, they just don't want to hear about
it.

There are some links about this at the bottom of
http://gocamino.oakapple.net/spam.html

namely

http://gocamino.oakapple.net/humor.txt
http://gocamino.oakapple.net/deterioration.txt
http://gocamino.oakapple.net/evolution.txt

At first glance it might seem to be a positive thing to have a flurry
of correspondence on gocamino, but if it's not a flurry of useful 
information, then it's not positive.      

Perhaps gocamino's time has passed.
Social networking sites are doing their best to make traditional 
electronic mailing lists obsolete.      Whether or not that's a 
positive development is not something to debate here however.
At the time of my camino (2003) there were still a lot of dial-up
low-bandwidth public computers along the Camino Frances, and a simple
text message format mailing list had a lot to recommend it.     
Maybe all of Western Europe is broadband now.