[DCPatriot]

It is time consuming to wade through a lot of posts that are not about the crisis in Middle East. We should hope that the participants in this thread understands that they actually could use Private Reply instead of discussing off topic items. The signal-to-noice ratio is embarrassing low.

This thread is 2000+ by the end of the day and many give up reading it due to the volume. What shall we do, report all off topic posts as abuse?The irony is that you are right now discussing an off topic matter.

Ah...the irony! ;^)

[AdmSmith]

I'm not against OT and crosstalk, but this thread will soon be 300+, that means that many of the readers will skip many "pages" of the thread and go to the last posted, they will thus not be able to read some important posts.

In a few hours it will be 800+

Naturally, this post is not important as it is off-topic. ;-)

[wildcatf4f3]

took me a second..but LOL!!!!