R
Richard Heathfield
E. Robert Tisdale said:Allin Cottrell wrote:
plonk
<networking, abuse> (Possibly influenced by
British slang "plonk" for cheap booze or
"plonker" for someone behaving stupidly;
usually written "*plonk*")
The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file.
While this term originated in the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre,
by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and mailing lists
as a form of public ridicule.
Another theory is that
it is an acronym for "Person with Little Or No Knowledge".
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=plonk
The Tisdale AS module seems to have developed a bug again. Its reply has no
relevance whatsoever to the article to which it is replying.