Gentlemen,

If you wish to debate endlessly, could you find a more appropriate
newsgroup? If your conversation consisted of 20 posts, it would be
within reason for an OT series, but these have gone on for more than
1000. Find yourselves a better home. Please.

I'm not sure I agree; at least, my news reader shows almost all on-topic
subjects, with a sprinkling of off-topic ones (like the Iraq elections one).
And my solution is simple... I just don't read that particular thread
anymore.