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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:12:32 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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Neil Hodgson wrote:
> Ethan Furman:
>> *plonk*
> 
>    I can't work out who you are plonking. While more than one of the 
> posters on this thread seem worthy of a good plonk, by not including 
> sufficient context, you've left me feeling puzzled. Is there a guideline 
> for this in basic netiquette?

You're right, my apologies.  Dwight Hutto is the one I plonked.  His 
signal to noise ratio seems incredibly low.

alex23 can definitely be abrasive, but his ratio is high.

(Now I'm wondering what that says about me as far as who I agree with 
and why... I'll have to think about that.)

~Ethan~