>By asking others to limit the discussions to books everyone >has read, or to type SPOILER on every posting is ludicrous. I would agree that asking people to *limit* discussion would, in fact, be utterly ludicrous. I have yet to see anyone make such a proposition. I fail to understand, however, why simply asking people to provide spoiler space is ludicrous. It is nothing more or less than a courtesy. How hard is it to include a little spoiler room for the most recent release? Let's see. *** SPOILER TEST *** *** END TEST *** That took me less than three seconds. If I wanted to get fancy, I could create a macro that would let me do it in a tenth of a second. And, of course, once spoiler protection exists on a thread, it takes zero time to actually preserve it. Now, if someone were to suggest that spoiled text be ROT-13 encrypted, specially indented, or transliterated into Navajo, then I could understand a charge of "ludicrous", but I just don't understand why you would apply that label to something that is simultaneously easy and polite. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail