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echo: startrek
to: MICHAEL MAREK
from: BOB KOHL
date: 1997-09-09 04:29:00
subject: Re: 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,
 
Not true Mike, depending on the distribution of the echomail. I pass echomail 
in admin echo's that is posted and responded to on the same day.
 
With the advent of the use of FTP feeds, echomail is FAST!
 
 
                                          BK
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