>>b) It would be nice if individual messages could be marked with some icon that designated them as "trailers" (or non-technical, or something like that). This way, if in a hurry, we could skip over the "thank you Sergey" followed by the "you're welcome" messages. I don't want to discourage people leaving those messages--it would just be nice to flag them to allow avoidance when clicking (and in search results). Unlike with the 3-star feature, where the originator makes the designation, this flag would be set by the person writing the message, as a checkbox before submitting. Maybe: [X] No New Content
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>If it annoys you so much why don't you put me on the twit filter?

Sergey,

No, you've misinterpreted my suggestion. First of all, I would never consider filtering your input, which is excellent and valuable. Just looking for improved ways to flag single messages within threads, so that when one is catching up with hundreds (thousands) of new messages, they can visually know that some messages can be skipped without loss of content. My belief is, if one could self-describe messages this way, it would encourage 'thank you' messages and other civilities, which some may avoid because of concerns over signal/noise types of concerns.

Sorry, I used you as an example. Such is the price of omnipresence!

Regards,

-- Randy