MT,
Although you wouldn't want blatant spamming for stuff like selling Viagra..... I'd humbly suggest to you not to get to bent out of shape when the folks in the forum go off on tangents to have a bit of fun. I mean, why do the forums exist if not as a place for the gamers to hang out and have a little bit of fun chatting back-n-forth. It is kinda nice if people stay on topic, but the forum archives aren't exactly the library of Congress that needs to be well indexed, on topic, etc....
There are some among us (and perhaps I was even one of these at one time) that feel lots of threads need to be locked and order needs to be created from the chaos that exists in forum posts. Personally, I think it's a silly/wasted effort in all except the extreme spambot or abuser that just won't shutup kind of situations.
In other words, don't sweat it man... and if the moderator du jour disagrees with me and locks this thread then I promise not to lose any sleep over it either. :) And never forget that a lot of threads going off on tangents is better than a dead forum where nobody posts much of anything.
P.S. The only reason I've been watching this thread for so long is to see if MC had some witty comeback to what WD and then I had posted... :) the fact that he's exercised his 5th amendment in this siutation, well.....