[Usenet] (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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