ignoring a thread: Threaded mail readers reduce high volume traffic to manageable

[David Timms]

Jacques B. wrote:
> On 9/21/07, tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>> I, as a committee of one, have gotten tired of deleting the "Remove
>> SELinux" thread, which has, is, and will continue to go nowhere with great
...
> The beauty of gmail (and others I'm sure).  Everything is a thread.
> So I don't see 90 messages in my INBOX.  Just one message with (90) at
> the end as long as the thread topic remains the same.  I can delete
> the thread in one shot, or just ignore it seeing it's no more
> intrusive than a single message.  I don't condone threads that take on
You also get the threaded capabilities with thunderbird / seamonkey. 
Click the top left {threading} header in the message list.
Right-click a message.
Mark
Thread as read

Further thread items continue to come in and be hidden within the thread.

DaveT.