Kitchen cock up

[JohnW2]

More to the point why is a post pre-2008 when regulations changed still available to view? I would have thought posts pre-2008 would have been deleted because they could mislead.

Physics don't change.

Very true, but an awful lot of the discussions here are, directly or indirectly, more to do with 'rules and regulations' than physics!

Kind Regards, John

 

[JohnW2]

I have asked forum management a couple of times why/if it might be possible to lock any topic that is more than (say) 12 months old and has had no activity. ... The inputs could then be viewed for information, but would stop twits like Wabbitpoo digging up old corpses.

Yes, it would stop that - but eric's concern was about old posts (prior to reg changes) remaining available to "be viewed for information", since he feared that the information they contained could have become incorrect or misleading in relation to current regs/thinking.

TBH, I think the real problem in terms of the resurrection of old threads is the wretched list of "similar topics" at the bottom of every page - which so often seems to major on ancient threads!

Kind Regards, John