"Martin Wohlert" <martin_wohlert at hotmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 05/18/06 12:47 PM To dragaera at dragaera.info cc Subject RE: META: Proposed Spoiler Warning Policy text >Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >>When writing a message marked with a spoiler warning, in cases where the >>spoiler itself would normally occur very early in the text of the message, >>it is a good idea to provide several blank lines (15-20 is usually a good >>number) at the top of your message to make it less likely for a mail >>client to display the spoiler text by accident. > >15-20? You're missing a clear option to use the number 17 here! Actually, I originally had it as "10-20", since I thought giving a range here sounded a little less Draconian than a set number, but then I thought, "the range really should center on 17", so I changed it. ;-) Jon