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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: How to win a bottle of Champagne
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 22:35:08 EDT
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> <enter mild flame mode>
> 
> I sure am glad I took a minute to work this problem before reading the
> next article (the one this message is a followup to).  Otherwise I
> wouldn't have had the pleasure of discovering the answer for myself.
> *PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE*, if you must show off your puzzle-solving ability
> by posting the answer to the net, at least encrypt the solution (and add
> a "(SPOILER)" to the header, for extra warning.)
> -- 
> =Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)

A simple guide-line: if you want to solve a puzzle yourself, skip over
all the ``Re:'' postings to that subject.  In this group the ``Re:''
is often pronounced ``Spoiler:''.

Maybe the next version of netnews should offer to ROT13 replies to
net.puzzle the same way it offers to ROT13 net.joke submissions.

		-Ed Hall
		decvax!randvax!edhall