On 23/10/2012 1:23 PM, sf 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".
>


They save me from being tempted to respond to people and threads that I
should not bother with. Speaking of which... I confess to have succumbed
recently to some I had previously decided I was better off not to deal
with. She is going into the KF by name and topic.