On 1/20/2019 9:52 AM, Fred McKenzie wrote:
In article ,
Rob wrote:

Even those that ask the questions are unlikely to ever come back to read
the replies. They were just searching the internet, found the article
on Google Groups that they do not regularly visit otherwise, ask a
question and move on in their search. It is unlikely that they can find
back the same Google Groups site 3 days later to read a reply.

I am willing to forgive people for replying to such old threads. If I
have an idea that might help, I'll provide it.

But you are correct. There is seldom any further response. And if I
research the thread, I often find it is an old thread I previously
replied to, and provided the same suggestion.

I suspect they expect replies by E-Mail, so there is no need to come
back!

Fred

I've occasionally fallen into that also, replying to an ancient posting.
But as I get older it can be nice to see, when I find I am saying the
same thing I did years ago!
Bob W, WA9D

I will post to a new thread. I found this thread through a google search and didn't think it was such a big deal to reply to an old thread. My apologies.
Ross AD6OE

On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 10:15:54 -0800 (PST)
wrote:

I will post to a new thread. I found this thread through a google
search and didn't think it was such a big deal to reply to an old
thread. My apologies. Ross AD6OE

It's not a big deal. It just so happens that there's a worldwide
shortage of things to be outraged about ATM, so people jump on whatever
they can get.