Dragaera

[meta] spoiler protection

Thu Dec 5 14:40:42 PST 2002

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:43:34PM -0500, Gaertk at aol.com wrote:
> Could people please put the word "Spoiler" in the subject
> line when they're discussing the new book?  I'm trying to
> postpone reading those posts until I finish the book, and 
> it's hard to tell which ones have spoilers.

I haven't seen anyone miss.  The only unspoiled discussion 
occurred in relation to events in one of the Vlad books, not the 
new book.

> PS.  Saving threads for reading later is another thing 
> newsgroups handle much better than email.

Um, no.

Newsgroups *expire*, often rapidly, depending on the news 
server.  Email doesn't -- unless you leave it on the server and 
run out of quota, which is preventable. :)

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