On 2014-12-24, 20:59 GMT, Reindl Harald wrote: > then why did you write the angry "*PLONK"? PLONK is not angry. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html defines it in this way: 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. For me it is just a sign that for the purposes of my mental hygiene I put author of the email into the killlist. No anger needs to be involved. Matěj -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
