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- From: kogoma@triton.unm.edu (Taki Kogoma)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
- Subject: Re: Zair, not Berd..
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 01:37:55 GMT
- Organization: Nit-Pickers for a Better Tomorow Afternoon
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- In article <C1I6x6.Lq7@unix.amherst.edu> kewasiel@unix.amherst.edu (They call me Ren) writes:
- >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.
-
- By that reasoning, we shouldn't say anything about the oldtimers,
- since that's the key to _Dragonflight_. After all, not everybody's
- read it.
-
- As Chris has been asking, where should the line be drawn?
-
- Keep spoilers on the 'most recently released' book? Then what do we
- do if McCaffrey never writes another Pern novel?
-
- Here's the deal. If anybody can propose a spoiler warning policy that
- most can agree on, I'll put it in the FAQ. However, I don't think
- such an animal exists. (But please try. I'd like to be proven wrong
- on this.)
-
- --
- Capt. Gym Z. Quirk (Known to some as Taki Kogoma) kogoma@triton.unm.edu
- I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior to
- what I have now...
-