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"David H. Burns" <dhb### [at] cherokeetel net> wrote:
> What's "plonk"? Or maybe I don't won't to know. ;)
WIYF - Wikipedia is your friend ;)
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Plonk is a Usenet jargon term for adding a particular poster to one's kill file
such that the poster's future postings are completely ignored. It was first
used in 1989 and by 1994[1] was a commonly used term on Usenet regarding kill
file additions.
The word is an example of onomatopoeia, intended to humorously represent the
supposed sound[2] of the user hitting the kill file. It is also sometimes given
as an acronym standing for Please Log Off, Net Kook, though this is likely a
backronym. Other used expressions are "put lamer on killfile" [3] and Please
Leave Our Newsgroup: Killfile!
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Not really polite unless the other party is really gone out of control (in which
case it's not polite either, just a good deal more adequate).
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