I just discovered this evening that one of my adversaries in the The Great Flood Debate on Mail-Jewish in 1994, Rabbi Moshe Shamah, compiled an edited record of the debate in fine PDF format, at http://judaicseminar.org/bible/mail%20jewish%20flood.pdf.
My own edited version of the debate, in which I changed the names, is at https://od.lk/f/110052207_MjgTo. The direct download link is https://od.lk/d/110052207_MjgTo/Flood%20Debate%2C%20Names%20Changed.pdf.
(The issue came up again a decade later, this time in Avodah with a different cast of characters, see primarily http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol13/v13n095.shtml#1 and http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol13/v13n099.shtml#1. See also the peripherally related discussion - in the comments - at http://garnelironheart.blogspot.com/2011/04/disappointment-of-aish-hatorah.html.)
Do you feel it is acceptable to read it as an actual event, however "kol asher ba'aretz" means "the civilized world known to the readers at the time this was transcribed"?
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