On 2014-12-24, 20:59 GMT, Reindl Harald wrote:
then why did you write the angry "*PLONK"?
PLONK is not angry.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html
defines it in this way:
plonk: 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.
For me it is just a sign that for the purposes of my mental
hygiene I put author of the email into the killlist. No anger
needs to be involved.
Matěj