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>The biggest problem is the conversation usually starts off technical & ends up in anarchy. I don't know how to control that . A friend of mine told me that on Compuserve (ugh) he only follows a thred for 3 or 4 replies & after that the message thread usually deteriorates. I would say the same thing here.

I think Alexandre's suggestion for the ability to mark an answer as non-technical is a good one, true , this will not stop threads from "deteriorating" , but it will help u not read an answer if u are not intereted in the chat

Arnon