The good old/bad old days in R.A.P.

On Apr 4, 3:37*pm, a wrote:
On Apr 4, 11:07*am, " wrote:

On Apr 3, 12:08*pm, a wrote:

New visitors, or older group members, might enjoy clicking on

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...piloting/about

and then click on a month in 2006 or 2007, to look back on a time when
this group actually had some aviation content.

This one appreciates you taking the time marking the threads non
aviation. *Helps glean out the wheat from the chaff. *Thanks!

Join in the effort!

Gladly and I did a couple just before responding to Jim! There are
some tricky situations we as a group would need to do for this to work
and not add to the problem (responding to off topics via cross posting
and existing threads)

See my response to Jim Logajan.

On Apr 4, 6:53*pm, " wrote:
On Apr 4, 3:37*pm, a wrote:

On Apr 4, 11:07*am, " wrote:

On Apr 3, 12:08*pm, a wrote:

New visitors, or older group members, might enjoy clicking on

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...piloting/about

and then click on a month in 2006 or 2007, to look back on a time when
this group actually had some aviation content.

This one appreciates you taking the time marking the threads non
aviation. *Helps glean out the wheat from the chaff. *Thanks!

Join in the effort!

Gladly and I did a couple just before responding to Jim! *There are
some tricky situations we as a group would need to do for this to work
and not add to the problem (responding to off topics via cross posting
and existing threads)

See my response to Jim Logajan.

Be sure to strip out the cross posting if you want to take part in the
effort. If nothing else it's going to annoy the jerks since their ever
so clever attempts will not be distinguished by a unique subject.

On Apr 4, 6:06*pm, a wrote:

Be sure to strip out the cross posting if you want to take part in the
effort. If nothing else it's going to annoy the jerks since their ever
so clever attempts will not be distinguished by a unique subject.

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.

Persistence will be the key to success but it will be as I said
earlier a cat and mouse game. If my experience in the other group
trues out here, they will get tired of the "majority" if we can get
others to join in in our revolt to get back this group.

In the beginning it will seem to be a non aviation topic fray, but
when you think about it, by having them focus in their attempts to re
control old threads, they are not posting new threads. So, on short
term, post count may go up, but new thread count will go down.

At least this was my experience in the other group.

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).

On Apr 5, 5:30*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

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

Since I use Google Groups, call it not my problem.

If it was illegal, then the edit subject wouldn't be there.

writes:

If it was illegal, then the edit subject wouldn't be there.

It's not illegal, it just doesn't work. I suppose it might affect something on
Google Groups (which I don't use), but on the rest of USENET, it has no
effect. You just end up creating new threads with your subject.

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 05:43:09 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Apr 5, 5:30*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

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

Since I use Google Groups, call it not my problem.

As long as it pleases you...

If it was illegal, then the edit subject wouldn't be there.

Illegal? Impractical but, heh, as long as you and "a" are having a
blast...

It's your Usenet, (ab)use it as you wish.
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On Apr 5, 10:20*am, Ari wrote:

It's your Usenet, (ab)use it as you wish.

Any other thoughts on improving it always most welcomed :-)

Doing nothing accomplishes nothing.