[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}.
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {include war}{plonk}]