In gmail you just press m and all subsequent responses bypass your inbox 
and get archived (yet stay marked as unread).

   http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer 787&topic 65

Let's try it.  Everyone chime in with a random, asinine thought of the 
day.

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"This isn't right.  This isn't even wrong."
   -- Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague