ATD spoiler hygiene & etc

[David Casseres]

On 10/24/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> When in doubt, use a SPOILER WARNING, please, if the
> info you are going to share might spoil anybody's
> first-time enjoyment of the book.  This method worked
> very well when people started getting and reading
> Mason & Dixon here.  I forget the exact timing, but it
> seems I remember that there was a period when
> everybody was reading it, then we launched into the
> exceedingly well-organized group reading that now
> graces the p-list archive. Heck, even McMullen
> contributed major substance to the MDMD, maybe he'll
> be enticed to start doing that again.

And I seem to remember that the first people to get their hands on a
copy restricted themselves to describing the book as object -- its
size and heft, the design, the typography, etc., no mention of
content, until the organized read began.