Conversations that just won’t stop

An idea for Google’s gmail …

Yesterday I got an email from a distant colleague which was sent straight to trash because it was a charity-ish request for some cause that I have no interest in.

After I deleted it it kept coming back because some of the other people he had cc’ed it to just kept on replying.

Without spamming him I couldn’t get their joviality out of my inbox because of gmail’s conversation mode.

What gmail needs is a settings option that says “trash a conversation once, trash it forever”

Generally speaking there is a need for a partial spam mode where it is the subject matter that is spammed and not the sender.