| From: | Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK> |
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| Subject: | Back to spoiler spaces, but don;t even *THINK* |
| Date: | Tue, 15 Jul 1997 01:42:45 +0100 |
<Simon.Sailer@****.AC.AT> rambled on endlessly about Back to spoiler
spaces, but don;t even *THINK*
>> Ok Sliver, before this goes any further, and Spike goes off on you,
>> remember that Spolier *SPACES* are in the FAQ. If you haven't read it, ask
>> Fro for it and memorize it.
>
>FAQ, FAQ... Me for example, I have never recieved the FAQ... could
>have happened to this guy, too.
Problems with the FAQ have been an ongoing thing, but Fro has been
dilligently posting the FAQ to this list on a regular basis for some
time now, so you should have had a copy. I'm calling names here, just
making an observation.
>> it's there. Putting "(Possible spoilers)" in the subject line does
drek
>> for us, cause we don;t see the subject line till we've seen the post.
>>Bull
>
>Just a thought... Have you ever thought about stopping reading as
>soon as you realize there are spoilers in the mail?
>You shouldn't see more than one or two lines then...
>And they can't spoil too much, can they?
Actually they can. Not having caught the beginning of this particular
sequence of posts, I can only assume it is B5 related, but one example
occured a while back. Several of my players subscribed to this list last
year, someone decided to post a comment to the list starting with
something like...
"So Dunklezahn's been assassinated then? ... " etc
My players had no idea whatsoever about that, none. The post was read
by three of them, and spoiled a large part of their campaign, partly
because they knew the outcome, and partly because it was so world
shaking that an event that major couldn't be "hidden" again, and
replayed later in the game.... So it meant that time and logic had to
take a great leap forward.
Now I appreciate that the above is probably not representative of events
in this thread, but yes, a _lot_ of damage can be done in the first
couple of lines.
>
> ss (who dares writing this, knowing that bull is one of the
> civilized listmembers who will answer in a polite
> language, won't he?)
Not if he can help it. Bull is surprisingly reserved a lot of the time,
but don't make the mistake of thinking him civilised. He is an Ork
after all...
<Ducks into shelter - again> :)
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