Re: AutoPlonk Idea

From: Shayne Wissler (thalesNOSPAM000_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:12:00 GMT

"Thomas G. Marshall" <tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com>
wrote in message news:e4Rbd.147$Ug4.57@trndny01...
> [double and multi-posted to pull out of the middle of a thread, I
> apologize]

Well it's such genious it deserves to be pulled up. In fact, why not just
post it to all the newsgroups? Oh wait, I see that you've gotten started on
that already. You're one step ahead of us there. Maybe you should file for
patent?

> Cristiano Sadun coughed up:
>> "Thomas G. Marshall"
>> <tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com> wrote in
>> news:Q9zbd.523$LS3.49@trndny07:
>>
>>> It's why I am in favor of an auto-message-plonk feature.
>
>
>
> *by Thomas G. Marshall for reference* :
> <quotage>
>
> If you've plonked someone, and they reply specifically to a message of
> yours, your newsreader reposts immediately with the post
>
> This sender has been plonked by me. This is an automatic reply
>
> Or some such. WITH the following limitations:
>
> 1. Only once per thread, regardless of how many times the bozo posts to
> you.
> 2. Only x times per day (probably once, I'm not sure).
>
> Other limitations are probably good...
>
> </quotage>
>
>
>
> *and by Cristiano Sadun* :
>>
>> Nice idea. I see you use Outlook Express - I'll check out if I can do
>> something similar with XNews..
>
> Be warned though. When I posed this idea previously, I got bitchslapped
> big
> time, but mostly from knee-jerk mistaken logic, IMHO, like "it'll double
> the
> size of the newsgroup" (clearly utterly false).
>
>
> --
> Forgetthesong,I'dratherhavethefrontallobotomy...
>
>

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