Re: [tlug] McLennan banned

[Mauro Sauco <mauro.sauco@example.com>]

On Wednesday 03 April 2002 09:01 am, Matt Doughty wrote:
> > Scott was more aggressive when he was on the list a year or two ago and
> > upset a lot of people (in particular the people who've been wasting this
> > list's bandwidth with emails that just say "*plonk*", which I assume is
> > some inside joke). So they are very sensitive as soon as Scott gets the
> > least bit off-topic.
>
>  If *plonk* is an inside joke the whole net is in on it.
>
> --Matt
I sincerely didn't know about the "*plonk*" stuff , so I took some time to 
search the web and found :


 excl.,vt. [Usenet: possibly influenced by British slang `plonk' for cheap 
booze, or `plonker' for someone behaving stupidly (latter is lit. equivalent 
to Yiddish `schmuck')] The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of 
a kill file. While it originated in the newsgroup talk.bizarre, this term 
(usually written "*plonk*") is now (1994) widespread on Usenet as a form of 
public ridicule. 

I thought might be of interest for those who don't know.

//mauro//