Re: Netiquette as she is spoke (was RE: Grammar Gang - a nifty blog

[Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> At any rate, I left a comment to a post that was written
> in 2009, just to see if anybody still lives there.
>
> Now, I've seen people grumped at, in the past for
> infractions involving commenting on two-year-old
> blog posts, or e-mailing to six-month-old mailing-list
> threads and forum posts.
>
> What is the big advantage (other than avoiding some
> people yelling at you) to starting a fresh thread...
> only to have somebody send you a link to the old
> thread, regardless... hmm?

If the blog/list owner intends for conversations to eventually "die"
then they need to disable further comments on them or otherwise
archive messages so they can be read but not replied to. Otherwise
there should be no issues surrounding reviving old conversations.

-- 
Bill Swallow

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