Subject: Proposed: New Format (Re: American Spoilers)
From: giovin@medr0.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo)
Date: 1991-10-08, 19:43
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <184@htsa.htsa.aha.nl> quintenu@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Quinten Uijldert) writes:
> >
> >When I was reading through all the newsgroups, I noticed that there was a
> >newsgroup called Alt.Tv.TwinPeaks, so I immediatly start reading all the
> >messages.
> >At first I was delighted that there were more fans of Twin Peaks throughout
> >the world, but after reading a letter from an American user I was shocked !!

> >   WHY oh WHY do you stupid Americans have to spoil it all for the European
> >   viewers of Twin Peaks.

> >You tell us about the ending, while we are just watching episode nr. 5 of
> >the first year.
> >That's just like you are at the movies, and the person next to you tells the
> >plot, just at the point that it's getting exciting !
> >
> >How STUPID !!!

Maybe we should adopt a format here for those countries still watching
Twin Peaks.  I think the series has finished in a number of European countries
but perhaps threads could be labelled for country-specific discussions.
For example, the above reader would post messages labels NL:

As for "stupid Americans" ruining things, you must realize that the
episode 5 that you just saw was first aired in the US *19* months
ago.  If discussions were limited to only shows scene in NL, traffic on
alt.tv.twin-peaks would be reduced to announcements regarding 
things like "Fire Walk with Me" and other non-plot related comments.

Rocky Giovinazzo