Well, those of you using GMail can turn on keyboard shortcuts and use "m" to banish the thread to your archives.  I'm not sure why the keyboard shortcut seems to be the only way to get at this feature.

-Karl

On 5/17/07, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
Is anybody finding it rather ridiculous that a thread with the
opposite title of this one is being continued to such a degree? Can
these conversations be taken to something like
alt.plan9.tangents.and.random.discussions.that.may.or.may.not.actually.relate.to.the.os ?

I know I have my moments of off-topicness, but yeesh.

--dho