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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>kill file</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../K.html" title="K"/><link rel="previous" href="kick.html" title="kick"/><link rel="next" href="killer-app.html" title="killer app"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">kill file</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="kick.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">K</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="killer-app.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="kill-file"/><dt xmlns="" id="kill-file"><b>kill file</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet; very common] (alt.: <span class="firstterm">KILL
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file</span>) Per-user file(s) used by some
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<a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> reading programs (originally Larry Wall's
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rn</span>(1)</span>)
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to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching
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some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subject, author,
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or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill
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file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in
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future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person
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or subject in other media. See also <a href="../P/plonk.html"><i class="glossterm">plonk</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="kick.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../K.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="killer-app.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">kick </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> killer app</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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