Spoiled

Adam Stephanides · 26 Jul 2000, 08:40 · from whorl-v0011.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Spoiled
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:40:51
Message-ID: <whorl-v0011-0011 at digest.urth.net>
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Alice Turner wrote:
>=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?) .

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

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