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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.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman AT acm DOT org