On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:19:03PM -0500, Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> wrote: > 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. Don't be absurd. That way lies spoiler protection for everything, and that's just not going to fly in this environment. This is not rasfw; there's only one author and his books are not exactly rare. About the only things I would spoiler-protect regularly are the Greater Revelations of Orca and Issola, and even those are a matter of courtesy more than strict requirement, since the revelations color all prior books somewhat. Anything else gets about 2 weeks of protection from date of release. People can argue about length of protection, but protection in perpetuity is silly. -- 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