Bob P wrote:

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've started using the 'Auto-Kill Thread' option on my news reader a lot
recently. All this does is stop the particular (off-topic) thread ever
appearing again in my news reader window, works a treat! Stops people
having to post complaints about long threads as well - hopefully... ;-)

....and less draconian than setting up an intricate Kill File - though I
do use one of those as well.

It's a simple key-combination on my particular reader / computer.