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A lot of forum etiquette like 'don't bump old threads' is rooted in the days of usenet aka newsgroups aka what we did before WWW. Bumping a thread meant paging through it to find the end and see what was new.

Forums such as this keep track of logged in users so you get that 'jump to newest reply' option. The content is also indexed by search engines and the new chant on many forums is 'use the search newbie'.
But we know the search is only as good as you ability to connect key words to the problem and one man's passenger fender is another's offside wing. So updating an old thread with new terminology or part numbers will be useful to the next guy with the same quest

So now, the ideal way to start a new thread is something like this:

I've got an X and need to blah blah
I found these older threads ____
But my question is ____

And as I stated before, adding new value to an old thread is always good. I would not have thought of a board with a hole in it for the tasc in OP, I'd have grabbed waterpump pliers and risked crushing it.


oh yeah, netiquete is not to go off topic /