14. The computer program product as set forth in claim 12 further comprising program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices to associate by a messaging server the persistently stored transcript of messages with one or more items in a list of conversational items.
12. A computer program product for providing conversation persistence in real-time collaboration system comprising: one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices; and program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to persistently store a transcript of real-time collaboration system messages for a first conversation thread in a first real-time collaboration system user interface, the first conversation thread having a beginning point and an ending point and a series of messages therebetween; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to allow a user to specify conditions for a messaging client to automatically insert a continuation point between two messages within the first conversation thread; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to display an indicator proximate to an entry for the first conversation thread in the first real-time collaboration system user interface, the entry being shown in a hierarchical list of organized subjects of conversations, the indicator indicating storage of the transcript from the first conversation thread; program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to, responsive to operation of the indicator, automatically retrieve the stored transcript, and to copy a portion of the first conversation thread into a second real-time collaboration system user interface, the copied portion being defined by at least two points selected from a group consisting of the beginning point, the continuation point, and the ending point; and program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to append newly authored and received messages in the second real-time collaboration system user interface to the copied portion of the first conversation thread, wherein a second conversation thread of is provided in the second real-time collaboration system user interface having the copied portion of the first conversation thread, wherein the copied portion allows a user to be refreshed of a context of the first conversation thread.