Experience Question

Peter Duniho wrote:

"Peter R." wrote in message
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Matt Whiting wrote:

Plonk

And I thought we really bonded in that US Airways thread...

However, I agree that plonking was your only logical move, given the
duress
those single keystrokes would have caused you down the road.


I thought it was funny, personally. If I plonked folks on as little merit
as he did you, he would've been in my killfile a long time ago.

I guess some people just have a hard time dealing. With everything.

Pete



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. Most entries in my
filter are for annoying sigs, folks that post in HTML, etc. I rarely
"killfile" anyone as I don't much care what anyone says, I just don't
like annoyances like fancy sigs, advertising, etc.


Matt

"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. Most entries in my
filter are for annoying sigs, folks that post in HTML, etc. I rarely
"killfile" anyone as I don't much care what anyone says, I just don't
like annoyances like fancy sigs, advertising, etc.


Oh, you poor little boy!!

You should spend some time in the Marines!!

"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