"Delete thread" in Mail.app?

[steve harley]

they whom i call Scot Hacker wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2006, at 6:15 PM, steve harley wrote:
>> if you're in threaded view, backspace closes the thread and selects 
>> it's proxy, then delete deletes the whole thread
>>
> 
> Hmm.. doesn't work that way for me. In threaded view, either backspace 
> or delete just delete the selected message, and the thread is not 
> closed. Instead,  I select the parent element (is that what you mean by 
> proxy?), and hit bsp or del to can the thread.

wup ... i meant to write left arrow, not backspace