KILL FILE

Domain	Definition
Computing	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. Source: Jargon File.
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Specialty Definition: Kill file

A kill file (or killfile) is a per-user file 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. Sometimes more than one kill file will be used.

See also: plonk. This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission.

Anagrams: KILL FILE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-i-i-k-l-l-l"
	-2 letters: killie.
	-3 letters: fille.
	-4 letters: fell, file, fill, kief, kill, lief, life, like.
	-5 letters: elf, elk, ell, fie, fil, ilk, ill, kef, kif, lei, lek, lie.
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