"Montblack" wrote in message
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If someone (or many of us at one time) would reply to these threads, but
remove rec.aviation - would the thread then follow that post - with rec
aviation removed? Throw the hounds off our scent so to speak. Could it
work?

Only for the replies to posts made by people who remove this newsgroup.
Other posts (generally, those from people outside this newsgroup) would
continue to show up here, because no one else will bother to remove this
newsgroup.

Regardless if it will work or not, if people want to post to (outside
group) nonsense threads, would it be too much to ask you to remove
rec.aviation from your reply? Thanks.

IMHO, that's essentially the same suggestion. And I do agree that if
anyone here really wants to get suckered into responding to one of these
threads, they certainly should not leave this newsgroup in the list. But
since (one hopes) most of the replies are from people outside this
newsgroup, doing so isn't going to decrease the traffic from those threads
very much.

I find junking the entire thread to be very effective (not just marking it
as read). I use Outlook Express's "Ignore Conversation" command, along with
a message view that hides all ignored messages to get them out of my
awareness entirely. The only hint that they continue is the unread message
count for the newsgroup.

Pete