Permanently exclude certain files & folders from backup

I see in the discussions where you can delete certain files or folders from TM backups. Does this exclude those files from future backups as well? Or do you have to go back into TM every time and delete them?
Thanks.

Barb2008 wrote:
I see in the discussions where you can delete certain files or folders from TM backups. Does this exclude those files from future backups as well?
No. But you can add files/folders to the TM exclusion list in system preferences->TM->options. that will stop future backups of those files/folders.

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