Matthew Hunter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:45:55PM -0400, Thomas Yan > <tyan at twcny.rr.com> wrote: >> But to reiterate, I would still want to see labeled spoiler space for >> other books, even if they are broad spectrum. In fact, I expect to >> often resort to labels like: >> >> + "Spoilers for all Vlad books to date" >> + "Pub-o spoilers thru Phoenix" >> (What's a good abbreviation for "publication order?) >> + "Ser-o spoilers thru Phoenix" >> (What's a good abbreviation for "series order?) > > This is just silly. > > EVERY post will end up having spoiler protection in it. There is > a point at which you just have to assume people have read the > books in order to have a discussion about the books. All the > major Dragaera works are in print to the best of my knowledge. > If people want to discuss the books and can't afford to buy > what's currently published all at once, they would logically join > the readalong list and buy one book per month or so as that list > progresses. I agree. I would like to participate in the read-along but if we have to follow alot of complicated spoiler rules that would involve (at least for me) stacking all of Steve's books next to the pc and spending a fair amount of time leafing through them trying to remember which book(s) the incident(s) I want to talk about was in and then figuring the spoiler warning(s) that was necessary I would wind up never posting for fear of angering/spoiling someone. Perhaps spoiler warnings for any new books that are published for the first month or so to allow for budget/real life/workload interference would be the best, as someone mentioned the rasfwr-j ng does. Along with those folks who haven't read everything by Steve (yet) reading the list 'gingerly', as someone else suggested. Anyway, that's my vote.