Dadd, thanks for your reply and patience with my wide-ranging posting style.
What I'm questioning now is not Oilphant proper - he's apparently a fixture of this board - but the propriety/need to cart comment on his provocateur-ramblings here from other boards. We may not be able permanently to quiet him/her/it here, but we certainly have no need to import commentary on his "horacling" from RB.