Hey mwitters,
I understand your annoyance very well; perhaps, sometimes senior members _do_ overreact things a bit! However:
1. If you've been around enough - and accordingly to the number of your posts, you have, unless (most of) your posts were bull**** as you claim ash2dust2's to be! -, you should have seen the beautiful stories that people make up to show that they "almost" have the CD but blablabla so they, actually, do _not_ have it... As a result, you should understand that senior member jump at someone at the slightest possibility of him or her not having the original CD - you must've seen that many times already, too - and behave so as to not raise suspicion.
2. As I pointed it out earlier, senior members are not to be messed with, even if you're right (which you _might_ be here, but that's not quite the point
).
3. As a programmer and mathematician myself, I agree, the forum rules are not very precise. But saying "do not discuss stuff about games whose original CD's you 1) never had and/or 2) don't have at the moment and/or 3) never will have" would look kinda silly, right?
Joe