kill file
[Usenet] Per-user file(s) used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry
Wall's rn) 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 one's kill
file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future.
By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in
other media. See also plonk.
[Jargon File]
Nearby terms:
KIDASA Software « killer micro « killer poke « kill file
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