ADMIN: Posting Rule Change - No Movie Discussion on Main List

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Dicentra spectabilis" 
<dicentra at x> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
> <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> 
> > What I feel is ridiculous is to impose a complete dichotomy 
between 
> > film and book. 

Dicentra:
> It's ridiculous only if you don't want to follow the rules.  Such as
> posting list policy discussions on the wrong list when you've been
> around long enough to know better ::glares pointedly::
> 
> This is an acceptable way to reference the movie on main:
> 
> MOVIE AS CATALYST
> 
> "While watching the PoA movie, I was struck by all the visual
> references to time, so I dug into the book and noticed that the text
> makes temporal references, too."
> 
> Then you list the examples from the *book* and offer analysis or
> whatever.  You don't observe that the movie shows a giant pendulum 
in
> the entrance but the book never mentions it.

Geoff:
Which is precisely the point I made in different words. There is an 
acceptable way to reference the film on tne main group.

So it isn't ridiculous after all.

I will refrain from glaring pointedly. It isn't polite.
:-(