Wolfgang Schwarz wrote:
>> <offtopic>
>> Gary Forbis wrote:
>> > What in the heck does "plonk" mean?
>> sorry. *plonk* is the sound of a name being thrown in a killfile. That
> is, to plonk somebody is to tell your mail-/news-client not to show
> any of his or her mails any more. So Jim won't receive this posting,
> because he plonked me.
My killfile is virtual.
> That leaves me in the strange situation of not
> being able to defense myself against his accusations -
You can defend yourself all you want, but if your "defense" consists
of dismissing everything I say as "an insult", *I* won't be paying
much attention.
> in general, you
> shouldn't talk to people who you've just plonked... ;-)
Ah, but it's just fine to talk about people and their private
communications if you think they won't hear it, eh?
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