Desired feature: ignore threads in gMail

Funny I’ve been thinking about email functionality and I agree entirely with Jack’s analysis and feature request:

Knowledge Jolt with Jack: Desired feature: ignore threads in YahooGroups

Since I do read yahoogroups, googegroups, Mailman and other listservs in email rather than visit the websites, the feature requested could be implemented across all platforms through the use of a decent email client. I happen to use gMail, so it would be nice if Google would implement this. I’d like to be able to ignore threads and watch threads. Maybe authors too. Then I’d be back somewhere near the usability I had with Forte Agent about 10 years ago!