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[Bob Zumbrunnen]

like most email systems have now.. and it could purge automatically..

that way they wouldn't have to flag your inbox but they would still exist

That's how it works on SI. At the end of the post-submission routine, it checks to see if the recipient has the author on Ignore. If they do, the message is flagged as already having been read by the recipient, so it doesn't appear in their Inbox.

That won't happen here until I fix the huge (but reliable so long as I make no changes) mess I made with Preview.

And that's such a huge rewrite that rather than rewriting it in-place, it'll be part of rewriting the whole site in ASP.NET, which is pretty far down the road. It's very likely it won't happen until I hire someone to take over most of my programming duties so I can focus on the rest of my job. Which I don't see happening anytime soon.