rec.autos.simulators

> -- why do people are evil for a website? a bunch of code, images, text and
> pictures...
> -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
> -- May the Downforce be with you...
> -- http://www.WeRace.net
> -- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't
realise
> how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

>>Someday, someone is going to have to explain this *plonk* thing to me. I
>>can figure out it's not a good thing, but exactly what triggers the
>>*plonk* response eludes me.

>AIUI, it refers to adding someone to your "plonk file" (aka kill file, aka
>bozo bin) which is a list held by your newsreader software of people who
>you don't want taking up your valuable time (usually because they're known
>spammers). What this means is that when your newsreader gets new headers,
>it will ignore those from that person.

>Some newsreaders (including mine, the excellent (and free!) Xnews) will
>allow a "sliding scale" of scores according to subject, poster etc, and
>will allow you to sort headers on this basis. So a complete "kill" has a
>score of -9999, whereas a complete "watch" has a score of +9999. So you
>could give a thread you wanted to follow, but weren't totally obsessed by a
>score of 1000, say.

>I don't think kill files are possible in Outlook Express, which is probably
>why you haven't come across them.

>Why the word "plonk" has become standard I don't know - it's probably lost
>in the mists of time, along with why anyone voluntarily drinks Jolt Cola...

>--
>David.
>"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really."
>(Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh)

> I don't think kill files are possible in Outlook Express, which is
probably
> why you haven't come across them.

> >Someday, someone is going to have to explain this *plonk* thing to me. I
can
> >figure out it's not a good thing, but exactly what triggers the *plonk*
> >response eludes me.

> PLONK is short for "Please, Leave Our Newsgroup, Killfiled"

> I never understood the O in PLONK, since newsgroups are
> public, and I always feel sorry for people who're using PLONK...

> Remco

> > > Ah Geez! Here I always thought it was a clever onomatopeic word
likening
> > > killfiling to the sound a stone makes as it enters the surface of a
> still,
> > > dark lake ; there to fall endlessly in the silence, never to be heard
of
> > > again. NOW you're telling me its a lousy garden variety acronymn!!
> (sigh)
> > > There is no poetry anymore :(

> > > Oh well back to practising Monaco in the BRM :)
> > > David

> > BRM: That's onomatopoeic, isn't it?

> Sure is :)  Watch for overspray though on the the screen :)
> David
> > --

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> Jan./ letting the team down badly himself.
> ----

> > <snip>
> > Oh well back to practising Monaco in the BRM :)
> > David