I guess you writing about "du bruit sous le silence" by
Pascal Dessaint? It's the only one about rubby I know.
Best
Fabienne
Steve Novak <
Cinefrog@comcast.net> a 飲it :
Gentle...gentle
Charles...or I¹m going to add many smileys to any
post...
Montois in a non-rugby mood...
By the way:
Anyone knows about crime novels with rugby in them???...I
know of one being written at this time by a French author and
friend...but aside from that???
On 2/18/08 5:25 PM, "hardcasecrime" <
editor@hardcasecrime.com> wrote: Mark wrote:
>
>> > Man, have I been struck by the
sheer
>> > nastiness of the responses to my
>> > innocently offered idea. That'll
>> > learn me...
>
> Not intending to pick a fight here, Mark, but you
didn't
> just "innocently offer" your idea -- you offered it
and offered it
> and offered it again, insistently and naggingly,
until this annoying
> meta-discussion about how best to hold our
discussions represented
> the majority of the messages coming across my screen
today. In the
> face of zero support from any quarter and more than
a few people
> saying, "Sorry, nope, not interested" you kept
insistently and
> repetitively explaining why you were right and all
the people you
> were failing to persuade were wrong.
>
> I don't think anyone would have responded
particularly negatively (in
> terms of tone -- they would still not have liked
your idea) if you
> had just said ONCE, "Listen, I know this might be a
lot of work, but
> I, at least, would like it better if we made the
following change and
> here is a list of the reasons the rest of you might
like it better,
> too. If no one's interested, fine; if you are
interested, let me
> know and I'll see what I can do to help make this
happen."
>
> But that's not what you did.
>
> For the record, no one could accuse me of being a
Luddite and I do
> appreciate the reasons some other platforms might be
better, but you
> know what? There's something to be said for inertia,
something to be
> said for the status quo, and even if I hadn't read
the many messages
> from people who don't want any change and the zero
messages from
> people agreeing with you, I'd have come down on the
side of
> encouraging the moderators to leave things the way
they are.
>
> Now, speaking only on my own behalf (but I suspect
I'm not the only
> one who feels this way), can we please let this
topic die?
>
> On the other hand: If you have anything to say about
the actual topic
> of this list -- crime fiction -- I very much hope
you will go ahead
> and post it.
>
> --Charles
>
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