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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 11:52:11 -0500
From: Dave Tweed <dtweed AT acm DOT org>
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fernande AT internet1 DOT net wrote:
> What is being "plonked", and what is the "Hiss"

From the jargon file:

plonk - [USENET: possibly influenced by British slang `plonk' for cheap
   booze, or `plonker' for someone behaving stupidly] The sound a newbie
   makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. Used almost
   exclusively in the {newsgroup} talk.bizarre, this term (usually written
   "*plonk*") is a form of public ridicule.

I don't know about the hiss.

-- Dave Tweed