As per this post http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=8524 it'd be nice
for individual users to be able to specify how many messages in a thread
before suppressing the dot display.
(...) From that same post: "Another suggestion, can we have a suggestion box?" Um, tick that one off as done. :-) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
