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- From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
- Subject: Re: Zair, not Berd..
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:33:27 GMT
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- 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.
-
- What about people who are complaining, have the book in their area, but
- haven't been bothered to get it?
- I know at least one instance of this within the last three weeks
-
- Eccles
- Great Cthulhu will save you - He may be hungry later.
-