Matthew 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'm suggesting that there are ways to say what the poster said without explicitly revealing one of the two big surprises in the entire series to date. We've hashed this quite a bit, I realize and I do not mean to _enforce_ spoiler protection, but as there have been a fair number of newcomers to the list of late, I thought it might be reasonable to remind people of the concept. Jesse Thomas wrote: > The last time I checked, the purpose of this list was to discuss > the various Dragaera novels. While it is common courtesy to avoid > giving out spoilers for the new book in the series, if we extend > spoiler coverage to every book SB has ever written, the list can > have no non-spoiler content. Yup. That has been an oft stated position. For discussion of courtesy, I refer you to some excellent conversations on the topic in _Issola_. As to your second point, I posit there are two events in the books that are worth avoiding stating explicitly. Naming the other persona of the one character that appears as another is one, and referring to Godslayer by the name used at the end of _Issola_ is in my mind the other. I'd say the rest of the contents of anything in paperback for more than a month or so is fair game to me. I note that: On Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:56 PM, Matthew Hunter wrote: > Speaking of which: Would the list owner please post a spoiler > policy reminder so we know how long the consensus for spoiler > protection is? To which there was no reply. Casey