On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:11:15PM -0400, Warlord <warlord at dragon.com> wrote: > > I don't have my books with me, but amazon claims Orca has been > > out since 1996. Even if that's too early (it seems too early to > > me!) then Dragon came out in 1999. That's either 7 years or 4 > > years. Either way, that's an obscenely long time to put in > > spoiler protection. > I disagree with this. The length of time that a book has been out > in no way establishes when a person might discover that book. As an > example, lets take a teenager just discovering The Lensman Series. > The series has been out what, about 60+ years ? > With regard to spoiler space, err on the side caution, I say. Sure. Let's put a spoiler warning in the list rules. In big, friendly letters: "This mailing list contains spoilers. Read at your own risk." In other words... that way lies spoiler-protecting every single post. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp