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Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 18:14:18 GMT
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Eric Sosman wrote:
> 
> CBFalconer wrote:
> >
> > Brozewicz Robert F wrote:
> > >
> > > im really dumb...what's "plonk" mean?
> >
> > PLONK is when someone sets a filter to eliminate an author or a
> > thread from the messages received, so as not to be annoyed by
> > foolishness or rudeness etc. or even because of a grand
> > disinterest in that particular subject.
> 
>     Actually, "plonk" is not the setting of the filter.  "Plonk"
> is the plonker's announcement to the world at large that the filter
> has been set.  It is the Usenet equivalent of "Neener-neener-neener,"
> and as such gives a clue to the plonker's emotional maturity.

I disagree.  It gives the plonkee a clue that he is offensive, and
MAY encourage changing his ways.  I don't think you just plug your
ears when your children start trying out curse words, and this is
no different.  Similarly I will send back a cold meal in a
restaurant.

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