# Spoiled *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 25 Jul 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *25 Jul 2000, 21:20* A favor, please? Or at least a suggestion. It's awfully annoying scrolling through all that SPOILER SPACE stuff, plus it takes up space in the archives, which can be hard to load as it is. Can we just be grown-ups and assume that anyone reading the Whorl list right now has to assume caveat lector (hmm, that's not quite right, is it, maybe postor would be more like it?) . -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Adam Stephanides *26 Jul 2000, 08:40 · follows Alice Turner* > Alice Turner wrote: > > A favor, please? Or at least a suggestion. It's awfully annoying > scrolling through all that SPOILER SPACE stuff, plus it takes up space > in the archives, which can be hard to load as it is. Can we just be > grown-ups and assume that anyone reading the Whorl list right now has to > assume caveat lector (hmm, that's not quite right, is it, maybe postor > would be more like it?) . I've been including the spoiler space because everybody else has and nobody's objected till now, but I'm dubious of its utility. It's useless for those who get the digest, unless it's in the final message of the digest; and on my email program at least, those who get individual messages are safe as long as there's a spoiler warning in the subject line. Is there anyone out there who hasn't read IGJ and finds the extra layer of protection given by the spoiler space vital? --Adam *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---