> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 "Warlord" <warlord at dragon.com> wrote: > > > > > >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 ? > > In my experience, that teenager will not sign up for the list > until he has > read at least a goodly portion of the series. He has no incentive to do > otherwise. > > 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. > Anyone who > subscribes to a book discussion list has to assume that there will be > information about books he hasn't read on that list. If you > don't want to > see any spoilers at all, then don't subscribe to the list until you're > caught up. After discarding a couple of draft replies to this, I realize that my time is worth more than trying to get you to accept my refutation on the subject. It was easier by far to simply put in an additional e-mail filter and route all your messages to your own sub-directory where I can read your comments after I have read all books currently in print. W "Sometimes, the answer is just to cure the symptom."