David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > >Nancy Thuleen <nthuleen at students.wisc.edu> writes: > >> At 23:45 -0500 11.6.2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> > "Scott Ingram" <singram at videotron.ca> writes: >> > >> > > Okay, I think we're going to need a little more spoiler space than THAT. >> > >> > Ah. That was a standard form-feed spoiler space; should be guaranteed >> > to produce a complete blank page, on any non-broken mail reader. >> >> Hmmm ... my newsreader interprets spoiler characters just fine, but my mail program (Eudora Mac) does not, apparently. I just got one blank line, which did seem a bit skimpy for any spoiler "space". Are spoiler characters really a standard for email as much as they are for Usenet? If so, Eudora is "broken", I guess. :( > >Formfeed is a standard ASCII character that means advance to the next >page. If the program doesn't, that sounds pretty broken to me. Emacs rmail didn't do anything with it either, which really surprised me, because I know that ctrl-l works in gnus. There was a long discussion of this in rec.arts.sf.fandom recently, and the consensus was that we needed to actually insert 20 blank lines before any spoilers. Also, about one month being long enough--I've been in several newsgroups where we were discussing television, and people from different countries would be 1 or 2 seasons behind. We'd put up spoiler warnings on a new episode for at least a year, and it didn't stifle discussion. -- Adina