kill file
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| :kill file: /n./ [Usenet] (alt. KILL file) Per-user file(s) used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Walls rn(1)) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subject, author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to ones kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by ones newsreader in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in other media. See also plonk. | |
| * (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using jargon with VERSION 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain) | |
