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• Quote #188 Some people said that emacs belongs in : Editor too big! -- Louis Larry
• kill file n. [Usenet; very common] (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn(1)) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subjec
  author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future....
• People regularly kill one another, and then write passionate letters to the editor about killing off an endangered species.
• Read in the "Letters to the Editor" column of "TIME" in response to an article on teen suicide
  People should be aware of the dangers of killing themselves....
• The number of letters written to the editor is inversely proportional to the importance of the article.
  -- Robert L. Marcu...
• kill file: [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some {USENET} reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subjec
  author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future....
• Dear Emily: I collected replies to an article I wrote, and now it's time to summarize.
  What should I do? -- Editor Dear Editor: Simply concatenate all the articles together into a big file and post that....
• Because I'm the editor, that's why!
• Ed is the standard text editor.