On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:00:26AM -0400, Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> wrote: > [slightly rearranged] > "Lori Reeder" <moodygrrl at earthlink.net> wrote on Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:40:01 > > [...] I would like to participate in the read-along but if we > > have to follow alot of complicated spoiler rules [...] > I want simple rules, too. "Must protect if newer than <x> months" > strike *me* as more complicated than "always protect" :) Tell you what. Can you define criteria under which an on-topic message would NOT deserve spoiler protection? If you can, then we can have a discussion about whether that criteria is more or less suitable than "time since publication". If you can't, then lets put a warning *prominently* in the list rules that spoilers are rampant and if you have not read everything available, beware... because we'll be spoiler-protecting every message anyway and we might as well be efficient about it. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org)