RARA-AVIS: Re: spoilin and flicks

From: jacquesdebierue ( jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com)
Date: 04 Dec 2007


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, sonny <sforstater@...> wrote:
>
> damn, some of you folks either don't care or forgot about the old
SPOILER
> warning on posts that give away endings and major plot points.
>
> this could be books or films. and speaking of films, i swear when i
> joined, richard (?) told me not to post about movies, as this group was
> for books only. oh well.

The list is mainly for books. And spoilers are a bad idea in any forum, hardboiled or not. They're also a bad idea in real life.

The procedure, if you suffer from spoilitis, is to put SPOILER, then a LOOOOONG blank space, perhaps another SPOILER warning, and then proceed, if you still think you should do it.

Best,

mrt



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 04 Dec 2007 EST