that shouldn't stop....Exactly. Problem arises only when another topic suddenly zooms off into the obscure reaches of one-legged penguin-fanciers etc! I only have a problem with topics that I
know will bore me if they are flagged as continuation of something else entirely - I feel about most sports topics like some feel about politics and religion
and FWIW, quoting AsP:
Might be better if we confined said discussion here, folks 
(speaking from experience )http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=31712
