On 2/21/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:28:12 +0100, you wrote:
>> You've missed the point. On usenet you silently plonk trolls because
>You know that "silently plonk" is a perfect oxymoron. Silently killfile
perhaps.
Up to a point, Lord Copper. *I* can hear the plonk as they land in
the bitbucket, but *they* can't ;-)
Ok, I mean the sense when someone says something trollish, and someone
else replies "*plonk*". The entire point is to tell the world that
you're now killfiling them. Or so I gather. :)
Yeah, it's an abbreviation for "You're a troll, I am now killfiling
you."
:-)