[clug] An alternate place for longer, meandering threads?

[Andrew Loughhead]

Andrew Janke wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:14, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>   
>> We may have lost Ben, James and Conrad from the list...
>> But their departure raises an issue.
>>     
>
> The 'm' key is there in gmail for a reason. (Mute).
>
> I don't know of a single mail client that doesn't support a similar
> feature including PINE when I used to use it eons ago.
>   
Thunderbird doesn't appear to have such by default.  There is a "Right 
Click Ignore Watch" extension though, which I've installed and will 
probably use in future.  Not because I disapprove of such threads, but 
because reading clug is part of leisure time for me, and that is 
severely limited.  Even writing these seven lines has been interspersed 
with supervising potty time, cajoling hand washing, providing afternoon 
tea, and cleaning up the kitchen in preparation for baby being woken 
up.  Way earnest mailing list postings just have no chance of cutting 
though that life noise - as well intended and socially important as they 
probably are.