Hi,

I came across the following:

MID: flpi143.ffdc.sbc.com>

which triggered a 'Spoilers visible!' alert in slrn. I have found the
relevant section of the manual:

http://www.slrn.org/manual/slrn-manual-6.html#spoiler_display_mode

but I am a little puzzled as to what is going on in this message
although I note the entry 6.102 spoiler_char above this that speaks of
"text preceded by a formfeed character".

Andrew

* andrew wrote in news.software.readers:

CTL L (^L) is the spoiler Char. Not sure I get the question. Relevant part of
the post is preceded by:

////////////////////
/ display commands /
////////////////////

^G | Give file name, status, current line number
| and relative position.

The next line begins with the spoiler.

On 2008-07-22, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:

Now I see, said the blind man :-). In my youthful ignorance I have never
seen nor heard of spoiler text before.

But I guess now I have and again I have picked up something else about
slrn (and Usenet) that I did not know before.

Andrew

On 2008-07-22, andrew wrote:

* andrew wrote in news.software.readers:

Beats SPOILER SPACE since one can never now how much space to use
especially with the ever growing screen sizes these days. Some groups
like book and movie related groups 'require' its use but as whiskers
pointed out, its a dying convention.

On 2008-07-22, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:

Sn!pe wrote:

Yeah, but how many people use that? ;)

On 2008-07-22, Whiskers wrote:

Well, at least I finally figured out what those dang lines of
asterisks mean at the bottom of some posts, and how to decrypt them
(ESC ?).

OTOH, I might be making a fool out of myself by getting this reply
wrong.

On 2008-07-22, Whiskers operamail.com> wrote:

Abj gung ng yrnfg V erpbtavfrq :-).

Andrew.

On 2008-07-22, Adam Funk ducksburg.com> wrote:

Just to lessen the pain of having to press this key combination every
time in a single message with multiple spoilers (as in the OP) I have
added the following to .slrnrc:

%% Keep the display still, and reveal all spoilers:
set spoiler_display_mode 2

http://www.slrn.org/manual/slrn-manual-6.html#spoiler_display_mode

I am very grateful that I am not the only one initially quite puzzled by
this :-)

Andrew