Usenet like killfiles for email

[Tom Buskey]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:54:49 -0400, Kevin D. Clark <clark_k at pannaway.com> wrote:
> 
> Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:
> 
> > I was thinking last time there was a topic amok - are there any MUA's
> > that have something like the old usenet 'killfile' functionality?
> 
> Gnus (running in X?Emacs) supports this, but then again Gnus thinks
> that mail and news are pretty much the same thing.  This is a very
> handy feature.
> 
> Time to *plonk* this thread...

I've used procmail to do it.  I once shared what I did w/ the list
(non techie) and everyone got upset.  "We can't have people excluding
subjects..."  It was a bit funny to someone who has used usenet alot.