"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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It wasn't a personal plonk, just one for convenience. It got really
annoying after a while to have to keep hitting the space bar to get to the
next message and to not see anything useful.

That's even more hilarious.

First of all, it's pretty childish to post a "plonk" anyway. In almost all
cases, it amounts to "la la la la I can't hear you" with your fingers in
your ears. Almost every single person in my killfile has no idea that
they've been killfiled. Why bother?

Secondly, if you DO actually post your "plonk", that is always personal.
There's no non-personal reason to post something like that. If you think
it's *really* important to communicate to the individual that you've junked
their posts (though I can see no good reason to bother), private email is
better. A public newsgroup "plonk" is anything but impersonal.

Thirdly, as far as inconveniences go, I'd say folks who fail to trim their
quotes, and who top-post, represent MUCH greater inconveniences. Oddly
enough, you fall into the first category, and I'm sitting here wondering if
you bother to killfile everyone who falls into the second (they represent a
sizable portion of the participants of this newsgroup, and create FAR
greater inconvenience for you than one extra page (at most) of blank lines
does).

Anyway, thanks for the amusement...I am laughing my ass off.

Pete