RickSisler wrote:
_plonking_ comes from usenet, Rosemary:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html
<qoute>
*plonk*
To plonk someone on Usenet is disdainfully to drop the person's
email address into one's killfile. That's according to the
Jargon-file entry.
</qoute>
Basically it would be like filtering/sending the email to /dev/null
- the system's "blackhole", and never being read.
Hopefully helpful 8)
Just goes to show what a newbie I am at all of this - hadn't heard the
term before :-)
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