Guess who wrote:
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:01:46 GMT, "Steve Peterson"
wrote:

Sorry about that, but this is, in fact, a rather serious debate going on in
the US.

Then post it in a serious US Politics forum. Why should people have
to spend a day and a half searching for a topic on woodworking in a
woodworking forum to please the whim of a few who excuse themselves
sometimes by saying it's OT? It's like saying liudly that you're
going to fart in a theater. Don't fart there. Do it somewhere else,
like alt.politics.bush. If the issues are that serious talk to your
congressman instead of ranting here. ...If you really do want some
serious results that is. You'll get none here.

Another thing that has already been mentioned. If the off-topic crap
is stopped then some real woodworking people will return to the forum
with some good ideas to offer. Instead, they leave in disgust.

Theaters don't have fart filters. Most ISPs offer filters that allow
EASY kill filing of OT messages.