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- From: kewasiel@unix.amherst.edu (They call me Ren)
- Subject: Re: Zair, not Berd..
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:15:06 GMT
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- Chris Croughton (chris@keris.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- :
- : I'm not disputing that spoilers are needed for some people who haven't
- : had the chance to read the book yet. My only query is *how long* should
- : they be required? Until the book has been out in softcover for a
- : year in every country? For instance, have places like China and Russia
- : actually had any of the books?
-
- why don't we just agree to be polite? what i mean is that if i were talking
- about pern to somebody i knew hadn't read atwop, i wouldn't mention what
- happens there. we know there are several regular readers who haven't yet
- read the stuff, because it is not yet available. so once they've said that
- it's out there, that it's been read, we can talk about it without spoilers.
- it's not like it's an unknown thing - the people for whom we are writing the
- "spoiler" messages can *tell* us when they're no longer needed. we don't need
- to worry about people who don't read this newsgroup regularly, as far as i
- can see.
-
- (: karen
- --
- karen wasielewski "a chinese philosopher once had a dream that
- kewasiel@cs.amherst.edu _|_ he was a butterfly. from that day on, he
- kewasiel@unix.amherst.edu | was never quite certain that he was not a
- kewasielewsk@amh.amherst.edu | butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.
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