ignorelist

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noun

A kill file.

First used the 1990sScrabble 11

Meanings

nounignorelist (plural ignorelists)

plural ignorelists

  1. 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)
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    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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