I pretty much have Communications up in a different window most of the time. I haven't really found it all that inconvenient, except when it goes through one of its regular hiccups and doesn't update properly, or when one particular thread generates so many short, frequent comments that it becomes overwhelming (which would overwhelm email too, right?). In that latter case, if it starts to seem irrelevant, I will turn off tracking on that thread, instead choosing to manually go look at the thread once a day or so... or not. That has only happened a couple times, though.
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