On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:24:48 -0700, Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote: >At 11:38 PM 6/11/2002 -0500, Nancy Thuleen wrote: > >>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. :( > >My Eudora agrees with yours. Forte Agent does not do much with form feed, either. I will skip the dissertation about the difference between printer formatting and window formatting. I don't care about spoilers myself, but if you want to take it seriously, do the s p o .... etc or equivalent. If you wish to support spoiler warnings in linear digests, do it before and after the message. Personally, for an author whom I read because I like the way he writes and like to be in the worlds he creates, I think spoilers of little relevance. They will be an annoyance to Steve -- I would think that in this group that would be a major inducement not to use them. But others may have different views. Richard