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kill file
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [Usenet; very common] (alt.: KILL file ) Per-user file(s) used by some
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Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn (1) ) to discard
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summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some
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particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subject, author, or
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other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is
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to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future. By
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extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in
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other media. See also plonk.
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