Just to defend myself a bit here..............

"People who are new to the forum aren't going to have any idea that there is a mammoth archive of discussions on their question, and, even if they knew it, they aren't going to figure out how to access it right away, anyway."

Quite true but I also sent a PM with the thread linked asking that they return and give us some additional info which we needed as well as telling them about the Group Links posted on the thread.


"On top of that, truth be told, often, the old threads aren't as coherent a discussion as people remember"

Actually they are but the crash jumbled the order of posts so I agree it IS confusing sometimes to me let alone a newbie. In most cases when I link back to a specific thread as opposed to a Grouping, I link directly to the post with the info.


"--so a new thread sometimes becomes a tighter, clearer, compendium than what was said before.

Perhaps or perhaps not......and when the next crash hits???????


I NEVER expect a Guest or a Newbie to go back and find an old thread on their own....I'm all for starting new ones! What bothers me are the 'Catters who should know where and how to locate the info requested and not bothering to do so along with posting their own NEW ideas. It seems for me to be a similar thing to not bothering to read a thread before posting as if their idea is exceedingly original and most important whereas the same things had already been posted on the thread 32 times previously.

My apologies if I have offended someone and if I truly have, well, here's some Vaseline.....Now go screw yourself!!! (;<))


Spaw