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Plonk warning  Plonk is a Usenet jargon term for adding a
particular poster to one's kill file such that the poster's
future postings are completely ignored. It was first used in
1989, and by 1994[1] was a commonly used term on Usenet
regarding kill file additions.  The word is an example of
onomatopoeia, intended to humorously represent the supposed
sound[2] of the user hitting the bottom of the kill file
(imagining perhaps the kill file as a bucket). It is also
sometimes given as an acronym standing for Please Log Off, Net
Kook, though this is likely a backronym. Other used expressions
are "put lamer on killfile"[3] and Please Leave Our Newsgroup:
Killfile!  It is also used as a verb: "I plonked that idiot". As
a public repudiation of the plonked poster, it is appended to
the end of one's reply (or may constitute the entire reply). A
user might also simply reply to the impugned post with the