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• kill file: [USENET] n. (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 subjec
  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....
• profile: n. 1. A control file for a program, esp. a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customize the program's behavior.
  Used to avoid {hardcoded} choices (see also {dot file}, {rc file})....
• plonk: [USENET: possibly influenced by British slang `plonk' for cheap booze, or `plonker' for someone behaving stupidly] The sound a {newbie} makes as he falls to the bottom of a {kill file}.
  Used almost exclusively in the {newsgroup} talk....
• Rumour has it that Larry Wall, author of readnews, is a finalist in the race for the Nobel Peace Prize for his invention of the kill file.
• profile n. 1. A control file for a program, esp.
  a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customize the program's behavior....
• opic drift n. Term used on GEnie, Usenet and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thu
  from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that tendency....
• plan file n. [Unix] On systems that support finger, the `.
  plan' file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered....
• opic drift: n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a {thread} to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thu
  from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that tendency....
• fool file, the: [USENET] n. A notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever.
  An entire subgenre of {sig block}s consists of the header "From the fool file...