From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47549 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: luis fernandes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [alt.religion.emacs] Re: lets get to the bottom of this once and for all Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:53:50 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <15815.52590.55704.137648@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036504481 3438 80.91.224.249 (5 Nov 2002 13:54:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18949r-0000re-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 14:54:19 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1894AC-0005cG-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 07:54:40 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 05 Nov 2002 07:55:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA06057 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 07:55:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 14794 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2002 13:54:16 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14789 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2002 13:54:15 -0000 Original-Received: from eccles.ee.ryerson.ca (141.117.1.2) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Nov 2002 13:54:15 -0000 Original-Received: from zen.ee.ryerson.ca (zen.ee.ryerson.ca [172.16.1.3]) by eccles.ee.ryerson.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA5Drme5032282; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:53:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from elf@ee.ryerson.ca) Original-Received: (from elf@localhost) by zen.ee.ryerson.ca (8.11.6+Sun/8.8.8) id gA5DroJ14591; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:53:50 -0500 (EST) Original-To: jas@extundo.com In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.0.106.1 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47549 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47549 >>>>> "jas" == Simon Josefsson writes: jas> Luis Fernandes writes: >>>>> ALL HAIL EMACS, THE ONE TRUE EDITOR! >>>> *PLONK* >> >>> =v= You mean "Meta-X plonk". <_Jym_> >> Can we add M-x plonk to gnus? jas> What would it do? The default action would be to just kill-file the poster for the article currently being viewed. If it was a hook, then additional customizations could be added by each user. >From the Jargon file: 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.