Back in the days of NetNews, there was <plonk>.
See #3 of the verb.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plonk
In the case of your personal news reader (or for us, your particular
email client) this is effective.
For LISTSERV (sans the feature Gabe suggests), it rests upon the list
admin to remove the plonkee.
Gotta love the onomatopoeic meanings and origins of the word!
-- R; <><
On 8/31/23 15:03, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
For decades, I've wished for a list setting:
Set bozo <person> on
...which would allow the subject person to post and see posts
reflected back, but not inflict them on anyone else. Talking into a
bottomless well would get boring.
Ed Jaffe<[email protected]>
On 8/30/2023 7:12 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
Dear ibm-mainers,
It is with regrets that after many years I will no longer be actively
following IBM-MAIN.
The list has become intolerable because of trolling, off-topic thread
hijacking, and personal attacks. The signal-to-noise ratio is
approaching "1". My assessment is that without some form of
community governance and real moderation, IBM-MAIN will soon be
completely useless except for the archives.
This is not the first time this forum has been hijacked. Everyone knows
who the troublemaker(s) is(are).
What I do is set up email filters to send those posts directly to my
Trash folder. I never see them.
Doing so is a lot easier than pressing the <Delete> key over and over...
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