On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 10:59:04AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
[...]
> Be considerate to each other. Be polite - be helpful.
[...]
Thanks, Andrew :)
> Trying to make Debian a better place starts one post at a time. That's one
> of the reasons why I volunteer for the Debian community team.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:41:40PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> deloptes wrote:
> > @Brian communication with Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside is meaningless and
> > a waste of time.
>
> You should have stopped here.
>
>
> > I even had to google her, because I had the feeling I talk to a troll. I
Dan Ritter wrote:
> There is no way in which the gender of any participant in
> debian-users is relevant. Nor their sexuality, religion, skin
> color, national origin, or even the fact that they use other
> operating systems from time to time.
It is not about the gender but the attitude, capice?
On 2021-08-13 12:53 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:49:34PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
> wrote:
>> Plonk ?
>
> In this context, it's the sound that a name makes when it lands in a
> killfile, ignore list, or whatever you call it for a given communications
> m
>From deep in prehistory, way back when bangpaths ruled and the stain
that is Facebook had yet to spill upon the land:
(I'm not the author)
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous bullshit,
or to take words against a sea of whinings,
and by opp
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:49:34PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
[...]
> Plonk ?
Greg and The Wanderer already provided a definition. Just adding
one standard reference, the Jargon File [1] in such things. Old
Usenet lore.
Cheers
[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plonk.html
On 2021-08-13 at 12:49, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> On 2021-08-13 12:41 p.m., Dan Ritter wrote:
>> And in conclusion, plonk!
>
> Plonk ?
The sound-effect "plonk" is the traditional onomatopoeia for the sound
of a person (or E-mail address, or whatever) hitting the bottom of one's
k
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:49:34PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> Plonk ?
In this context, it's the sound that a name makes when it lands in a
killfile, ignore list, or whatever you call it for a given communications
medium.
On 2021-08-13 12:41 p.m., Dan Ritter wrote:
> deloptes wrote:
>> @Brian communication with Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside is meaningless and
>> a waste of time.
>
> You should have stopped here.
>
>
>> I even had to google her, because I had the feeling I talk to a troll. I
>> think she is e
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