Meanings
plural ignorelists
- InternetuncommonA kill file.First known use the 1990s
when they come back on not on list put them on ignorelist
1999 December 27, dee-dee, “contact list”, in alt.icq (Usenet)4 more examples
Is there a way to ignore all queries send to you except specific userlevers or nicks/hostnames???? I could set *!*@*,private in my ignorelist but this will ignore everyone.... not exactly my intention
1997 March 8, Dare, “queries”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet)A tad more serious (but not much): I've read the comments to this >note, and I don't really have much to add but pointing out that if >Guyver had been only a personal problem to me, I'd set him on the huge >ugly ignorelist (which I for months actually did), but the fact that I >started to argue with him was that:[…]
1997 October 11, Matthew Milam, “A Matter of Grave Importance..”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet)Is that a question for me? I have Harry on my ignorelist, and I do not have a webpage with anything on it written by him.
2002 December 12, Corax, “101 Rules of True Satanism”, in alt.satanism (Usenet)We're partitioning MX hosts by network whitelists, blacklists, ignorelists. I was wondering if we had covered all the mechanisms, or whether another partitioning scheme would need to be considered.
2003 March 21, Wietse Venema, “check_mx_access, was Re: wishlist”, in mailing.postfix.users (Usenet)
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