On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 21:50, Howard Brazee wrote: > Jot Powers wrote: > > > This comes up about every 9 months or so, must be the list pregnancy. > > > > The standard that I take, unless there is list-mom or authorial > > objection, is there is no need for spoilers for anything n-1 books > > back. In other words, I will protect the two latest books, but > > I feel no moral obligation to make reading this list a more time > > consuming process than it already is. :) > > > > -Jot > > Is that standard for all news groups? If so, it is too generous for this > particular list server, which has a more narrow population. > > It varies. On rasfw, it's considered good form to spoiler just about any detail which would ruin enjoyment of any book, including ones several decades old, since the readership of the group is very widely varied indeed. However, this frequently done via rot13 rather than spoiler space.