Strategies for Dealing with Plosives

Plosives: the microphone, hit with a hard puff of air from a vocalist singing a P B C H etc. Diaphragm rattlers, input circuitry chokers, and unintentional kick drum mockers... I recently saw a guy simply cut the beginning of the wave off to minimize a plosive sound. I remembered doing it that way about a decade ago, and it made me wonder why I abandoned it for High Shelf EQ, Spot EQ, and/or Low-band Compression. What do you think? What are you currently doing about plosives?