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[rickman]

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[rickman]

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On Jul 12, 9:21 am, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...@ yahoo.comwrote:

In message
<b77b339c-e148-4476-a474-141111694...@m4 4g2000hsc.googl egroups.com>,
>
rickman <gnu...@gmail.c omwrote:

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?"

[Lew]

Re: spam

rickman wrote:

On Jul 12, 9:21 am, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...@ yahoo.comwrote:

>In message
><b77b339c-e148-4476-a474-141111694...@m4 4g2000hsc.googl egroups.com>,
>>
>rickman <gnu...@gmail.c omwrote:

>>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.

--
Lew

[INVALID@EXAMPLE.COM]

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rickman wrote:

>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?"

It is a matter of basic politeness and common courtesy. Without the
plonk, the killfiled poster is left hanging in the wind, wasting his
time writing responses that will never be read.

If you were talking with a blind man, would you silently creep
out of the room leaving him talking to the walls, or would you
be polite and excuse yourself before leaving?

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

Re: spam

INVALID@EXAMPLE .COM wrote:

rickman wrote:

>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?"

>
It is a matter of basic politeness and common courtesy. Without the
plonk, the killfiled poster is left hanging in the wind, wasting his
time writing responses that will never be read.
>
If you were talking with a blind man, would you silently creep
out of the room leaving him talking to the walls, or would you
be polite and excuse yourself before leaving?

I think most people will want to be polite to a blind.

I very much doubt that the same applies to usenet posters
they want to plonk.

Arne

[David Brown]

Re: spam

rickman wrote:

spam

*Why* are you replying to spam messages like this? The spam in c.a.e.
usually costs me about 10-15 seconds a day pressing "K" for "kill
thread" on my newsreader - but your bizarre new habit has cost me far
more in trying to think out a rational explanation for your posts.