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kill file: n. [Usenet; very common] (alt.: KILL
file) Per-user file(s) used by some
Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's
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 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.
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