networking, abuse (Possibly influenced by British slang

"plonk" for cheap booze, or "plonker" for someone behaving

stupidly; usually written "*plonk*") The sound a newbie

makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While this

term originated in the Usenet newsgroup

news:talk.bizarre, by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and

mailing lists as a form of public ridicule.