[OT] Auto plonk message

From: Brendan Guild (dont_at_spam.me)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:58:52 GMT

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
> It's why I am in favor of an auto-message-plonk feature.
>
> 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...

I'm unclear about what the point of such a message would be. It seems
clearly off topic for almost any newsgroup and worse perhaps even
uninteresting. Posting details about who I have plonked may not be a bad
thing usually, but I'd hardly want that sent out automatically. At the
very least I would try to wrap it in interesting and on-topic content so
it isn't so obvious what I am doing. I suppose even that can be
automated from an existing list of trivia for the newsgroup.

If you have chosen to not respond to what a person posts, why can't you
just be happy with your decision?

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