writes:

Yep I am being conciencious of doing this. What you say above is the
key for us getting our group back :-)

I will only do this to "initiated and already known off topic threads"
that are not aviation related. It only takes a second and as you will
see, I just leave the one line showing who posted the off topic
material. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to work with thread
drift as I encountered in my other group.

I hope you aren't actually trying to change thread subject lines. You realize
that that doesn't work on USENET, don't you?

Refer to RFC 1036 for details on the protocol. Keep in mind that the way
Google handles newsgroups is rather specific to Google. Changing something to
get it to look different on Google has no effect on the rest of USENET.

This reminds me of a story I heard once about a fifth-grade teacher who wanted
to rearrange the keys on a computer keyboard. She pried the keycaps off and
move them around, ignoring the strident objections of a nine-year-old student
who insisted that the key layout could not be changed that way. It wasn't
until an IT technician told her that the nine-year-old was right that she was
willing to believe him (although the fact that moving the keycaps had no
visible effect was probably persuasive as well).