Editing Kill file (section)

==Variations==

Some newsreaders allow the user to specify a time period to keep an author in the kill file.

An '''ignore list''' is a similar yet simpler feature found in some [[web-based]] forums, including some web-based Usenet portals, which filters out posts by author only.

'''Scoring''' is a more advanced feature found in some newsreaders, including [[Gnus]]. The newsreader uses [[fuzzy logic]] to apply arbitrarily complex overlapping rules, stored in score files, to score articles. An article is ignored when its score is below a user-defined threshold. For example, articles might score as ignored (killed) if it violates too many low-weighted stylistic rules (e.g. containing too many [[capital letter]]s or too little punctuation, implying an annoying reading experience), or only one or two highly-weighted rules (such as the [[Email#Message_body|body]] containing objectionable keywords or the origin being a known source of [[spamming|spam]]).<ref name="The Gnus Newsreader">{{cite web |title=The Gnus Newsreader - 8. Scoring |url=https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Scoring.html |website=www.gnu.org |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref>