to think that if you join a club, you respect the rules.

[jamaisjedors]

Well?

what?

Yup.

huh?

MN?

Yanbu

Brownies?

And?

Like sending on books that were sent to you in a bookswap.

Seems like an elementary rule, non?

FuckMonkeysRus?

Could apply to MN but I wasn't aware there were many rules on mn, just lots of unwritten ones

Oui?

yes and no.
In general yes, especially for the written rules, but no if the club is something that is open to a large group of people and the small handful of long term members want it run according to their unwritten rules based on their idiosyncrasies.
Maybe you could explain what you mean, jamaisjedors?

OK so the principle of a book swap club is that you SWAP books.

ie, someone sends you a book, you send it on to someone else.

I would be tempted to say "simples" here but I never do, so I won't

In that case, YANBU (as long as you've given them a reasonable amount of time to read it).
Do they want to buy the book or just keep it FOB?

yanbu

One has disappeared, never to return (no replies to emails/cats).

One has had the books and given one sign of life after 3-4 CATs and several emails.

I am but often on mn I have my eyes opened as to WHY people do incomprehensible things (to me).

I can't understand this.

YADNBU I agree with you entirely, surely if you enter into something like that with a group of people you stick with it, one person not sticking to the rules spoils it for the rest of the group.

Twenty five.

yy.

Why? Is it an MN book club?
OP, yanbu but why don't you just chuck this person out of your club?

By not joining in is, the people have effectively excluded themselves.

However the issue is holding on to other people's property (books).

I'm not sure how to handle it when personal emails and CATs don't do the trick.

Any suggestions?

Surely nearly 3 months is a reasonable amount of time to either read or pass on?

Has someone been talking about fight club? Tutt tutt