Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Howard Brazee wrote: > > #In a SF newsgroup, I agree. In a listserv designed to discuss > dragaera #minutia, no. We will all read the books within a couple of > months - at #least of paperback. > > You will. I will. What about the person who picks up a copy of a book, > says, "Hey, this is great!", Googles "Steven Brust", and joins this > list? We owe them consideration. We were all Brust newbies once. We > may well be newbies for other authors in the future. They quickly discover that this newsgroup is not of much interest to people who haven't yet read his books. You had a point when most of his Dragaera books were out of print though. Trouble is *EVERYTHING* could be a spoiler. We could start every post with a **SPOILER** warning or three (depending on how many books were referenced).