[Pan-users] Here's an odd one : conditional plonk??

[Beartooth]

I've just made an odd discovery -- one of the lesser lights (but still a 
highly technoid participant) on what could be my most important usenet 
group (other than this one) turns out to know what I mean and why I ask 
my questions, better than I do.

He is quite sure I ask deliberately obscurantist questions in order to 
make trouble.

He boasts of his offended (and calculatedly offensive) replies to a 
recent question -- rousing one of the very few flame wars I have seen in 
that group, if not the only one. (Others have flamed him; I've been off 
usenet for days, and have only discovered all this now.)

I could of course plonk him, and may have to. 

But he doesn't treat all posters that way, only some, chosen I have no 
idea how. To others he does sometimes return answers I may want to see.

Would it be feasible to plonk his posts if and only if they are either 
replies to mine, or comments in threads I start? 

Or would I end up spending weeks trying to construct such a filter, and 
failing in the end anyway? 

He does have an odd-looking name -- odd in the sense that it seems (to 
me, anyway) to fall etymologically between two languages, as if some 
forbear had adapted it from one to the other -- but I'm sure to forget 
*why* I've started finding that name noticeable ...

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.