User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-4085927-20111006153954/@comment-10532749-20111007214931

Do not want checkboxes visible by default, sorry.

Clicking something ('Start selecting messages') *than* showing them seems to me as the same as allowing clicking whole messages at this point (without requiring clicking on something as small as checkbox, so actually better). Please remember than GMail displays messages one after another in a very tight layout (only subject), and this is not the case for Message Wall.