2.4 Some people keep talking about using "Kill" files to avoid seeing messages you don't like. What the heck is a "Kill" file anyway?
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This article is from the Internet Personals: Advice for Gay Men FAQ, by Fred Young nssf@greatwildwest.net and Dean Esmay esmay@syndicomm.com with numerous contributions by others.
2.4 Some people keep talking about using "Kill" files to avoid seeing messages you don't like. What the heck is a "Kill" file anyway?
This really just applies to Usenet, not the Web. It is a feature
in some news reading software to filter out unwanted messages. You
tell it not to show you articles containing certain words or
phrases or posted by certain people. It can be helpful in some
places, but until more people start using simple, easily
identifiable titles to their personal ads, this will remain a
mostly-useless feature for personal ad readers.
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