The Gmail team announced today that they have begun rolling out a new feature that allows users to turn off threaded conversations. Conversation threading has been debated between Gmail users since it launched in 2004, with some liking the organization it provided and some not.

The way Gmail organizes mail into conversations is like cilantro. You either love it -- and, like me, enjoy the nice citrusy, herbal finish it gives to everything from salsa to curry -- or you hate it. And those of you who hate it hate it enough to launch sites like nocilantro.com and ihatecilantro.com (“an anti cilantro community”), where you can hate it together.

The feature to disable conversation threading will be rolled out over the next several days to users. To turn off threading, simply go the the Settings page in Gmail and look for the "Conversation View" section, select the "Off" option and you can once again view your emails the way you like it.