On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:24:46 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
> wrote:

> Kill files are a blame-the-victim approach. Any lunatic can post to
> Usenet and it's the responsibility of the reader to deal with the noise.
> The security model is from a by-gone era and has not worked for
> decades. The problem is lunatics know that. It takes being a lunatic
> to want to be read in spite of being filtered but Usenet has drawn
> lunatics ever since posting like a lunatic no longer caused you to flunk
> out of college from your college computer account being pulled.

Did you mean to say "blame-the-victim" approach? There's no shame in
using a kill file. The only posters who are against it are those who
don't have the capability to kill and are too lazy to change or they
are the perpetrators. Personally, I love kill files. Not only do I
kill posters, I also kill key words for trolls/spam and I kill
legitimate threads I'm not interested in reading or become bored with
after a while. Some people call it killing "noise".

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