ignorelist

English

Etymology

From ignore +‎ list.

Noun

ignorelist (plural ignorelists)

1. (Internet slang, uncommon) A kill file. [from the 1990s]
   • 1997 March 8, Dare, “queries”, in alt.irc.mirc‎^[1] (Usenet):

     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 October 11, Matthew Milam, “A Matter of Grave Importance..”, in alt.fan.furry‎^[2] (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: […]

   • 1999 December 27, dee-dee, “contact list”, in alt.icq‎^[3] (Usenet):

     when they come back on not on list put them on ignorelist

   • 2002 December 12, Corax, “101 Rules of True Satanism”, in alt.satanism‎^[4] (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.

   • 2003 March 21, Wietse Venema, “check_mx_access, was Re: wishlist”, in mailing.postfix.users‎^[5] (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.