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echo: startrek
to: ZORCH FREZBERG
from: MICHAEL MAREK
date: 1997-09-07 09:29:00
subject: SPOILER ALERT...

 LF>> I thought it would be lifted after Saturdays as some people don't
 LF>> get to see the show until Staurday as they don't have the
 LF>> Wednesday time slot... that's the way I thought it was...
 LF>> nevermind. :)
 ZF> No, I'm sorry if I dropped the time limit too early.  My information was
 ZF> that the 'last' independent running VOYAGER did so on Friday...
 ZF> I may have misread the listings, so my apologies on this.
The rules of the Echo say the spoiler lasts until one week after
satellite uplink time.  The first satellite uplink of Voyager I am
familiar with is Wednesdays at Noon ET.  (I'm never home to see this
feed, so I can't confirm it personally, but it has been listed in On-Sat
Wild Feed listings for months.)
On the other hand, due to Fidonet dymanics, messages posted after about
midnight on a Friday night don't get distributed beyond the local BBS
until Saturday night/Sunday morning.  So your spoiler warning,
announcement *did* protect people who see Voyager on Saturdays, of
course.  Some of our current Echo participants may not realize those
details about how Fido works.  :-)
Mike Marek
Vice Moderator
TREK Echo
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