Delete · Do this to my work · it connects
Element 42
Stop someone reaching you.
block · mute · unsubscribe
First known
Opened
1971Unix: type mesg n, and other users can no longer write to your terminal. Ritchie and Thompson, Bell Labs.
See also: rn KILL files: 'The purpose of a KILL file is to mark articles as read on the basis of some...' (rn 4.3 manual page, mod.sources, 10 May 1985).
“mesg -- permit or deny messages ... mesg n forbids messages via write by revoking non-user write permission on the user's typewriter.”
mesg n shuts out everyone at once. Filtering out one sender or one subject came with rn's KILL file in 1985.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
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Specimen № 42 — operate freely
Your phone won’t stop. Quiet each of them, a different way.
Fig. 42 — Block
000 readings · idle
Down the Delete column
Read down and Delete gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Block takes.
- block
- mute
- unsubscribe