[mdlug] Are there any clients that support sub-thread blocking?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Clinton V. Weiss <cvweiss at gmail.com> wrote:
>  This got me thinking, and that got me searching. Are there any clients
>  and/or plugins that allow ignoring sub-threads?  Not the whole thread,
>  just a certain root message and all threads below that root message.
>  My searching got no where, and I'm not in inclined to write a new
>  client and/or plugin that supports this idea.

I use gmail (so do you), and heavily utilize the 'mute' command ->
shortcut == 'm'.  Hit 'm' on your keyboard while reading this thread.
You will notice that gmail mutes the conversation and you will not see
any more emails on this topic :-)

>  Does anyone know of or use a client and/or plugin that supports this
>  idea?  I imagine it would see some decent use in mailing lists
>  everywhere.

There may be a non-webmail way to do this, but I don't know of one...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
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"It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an
intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing
gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and
difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious
watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or
failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to
Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878