Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!Woods.pa@XEROX.ARPA From: Woods.pa@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V9 #153 Message-ID: <12285@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 17:07:05 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12285 Posted: Thu Aug 9 17:07:05 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Aug-84 00:35:41 EDT Lines: 41 From: Don WoodsTo 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.