rickman wrote:
On Jul 12, 9:21 am, Scott in SoCal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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rickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
spam
*PLONK!*

I love the way that people who plonk others feel the need to inform
everyone of it.  That ranks up there with, "I know what you are, but
what am I?"

That's one interpretation, likely not the plonkers but supportable by reasoning.

Another supportable interpretation is that it both does the offender the courtesy of notification so that they get one last chance to reconsider their behavior, and suggests to the community at large that they follow suit. So a public "plonk" is actually a service both to the troll/spammer/innocent victim of slander and to the larger newsgroup community.

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