i'm in favor of that as well. yes, useful.
Less useful on threaded format (which thank goodness we don't have). What happens is the the heading, however horrendous remains. The other thing, though not so much of a problem, is that you have to read an initial message from an unwanted poster before ignoring - so it's like the courtroom : "Members of the jury are directed to ignore that last remark" but. right. ignore is adequate for most cirmcumstances.
the old CIS forums had a pretty good alternative too, to out-and-out delete. The moderator would simply move totally off-topic, grotesque etc messages/threads to a sort-of penalty box forum.
Saves from wondering what was actually deleted, for those that really wanted to know. since there is a possibilty for abuse of straight delete by an overzealous moderator, of course.
Actually this whole discussion about forum operaton and such is off-topic and probably would have gotten moved to continue elsewhere. Hopefully we won't get too far afield here before getting back to, what was it now, oh, yes, mosh <g>
