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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V9 #153
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Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 17:07:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 17:07:05 1984
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From:  Don Woods 

To the moderator:  I think you've been slipping lately with regard to
spoiler warnings.  Whenever possible, of course, spoiler warnings should
be included by whoever sends the message, especially since I gather some
networks receive SFL directly rather than in Digest form.  But those of
us who get the digests appreciate having the spoiler warnings inserted
by you when the submittors forget.  Each of the last two digests I've
read has included at least one blatant spoiler for Star Trek III, with
absolutely no warning.

*** SPOILER WARNING ***
    I'm about to mention what elements of Star Trek III got spoiled by
    the aforementioned Digests.  If you managed not to read those
    spoilers and don't want to break your streak, skip this part!

The previous Digest (V9 #152, I guess; I no longer have a copy) listed
Star Trek in the "topics" section at the top, but the first Star Trek
message had a subject of "Naval Experimental".  Thus, someone who hasn't
seen ST3 would not realise that this was a message about Star Trek and
might well keep reading, and within another couple sentences was
something that referred to "the next Enterprise" or something like that.
In the Digest I'm now reading (#153), the opening message is supposedly
about "Fuzzies and Other Sequels", and in the middle of an otherwise
general discussion about Star Trek being "nothing but a series of
sequels" the writer pops up with "Spock can't die; too many 14-year-olds
would jump off of bridges.  So you bring the chap back from the dead."
No spoiler warning.

*** END SPOILER ***

PLEASE FOLKS!!  Remember that not all of us see all these popular movies
within the first few weeks of their release, and we might want to have
what few surprises they hold left as surprises for when we do get around
to them.  Don't get so caught up in your primary topic that you forget
to flag spoilers when they arise.  And please, Mr. Moderator, if your
Digestifying method can accommodate it, please skim the messages with an
eye to inserting spoiler warnings when the authors have forgotten to do
so.

	-- Don.