Re: Killfile: Was all sorts of rants and ramblings regarding free speech, rants, mo

At 12:23 PM -0700 4/29/02, Brian Bilderback wrote:
>Ok, for those of us still in the computer dark ages, will someone 
>explain to me what a killfile is and how to use it?

Well, its actually a Dark Age Computer thing when you get down to it. 
Not many main stream mail tools use them as they go for ultra simple 
in terms of features.

A kill file is essentially a filter list that automagically deletes 
any mail from a particular person, topic, domain, or what ever you 
want to use as a chriteria. Its a filter list in other mail tool 
terms.

In the the old days of unix mail, UUCP and NNTP feeds mail and news 
readers typically had a function that had a list of parameters in a 
'kill file', hence the term. Folks would be able to filter out 
individuals that offended them, say anything with "kibo" in it if 
they had thin skin or hated massive .sig files. In the modern days of 
Spam, it's a bit harder to use given the massive number of sources of 
spam. One is almost tempted towards dumping mail from all .kr or .ru 
domains in some cases...
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