Forum Question

Im new to this forum and have been reading most of the archive material. The question is how far back is it acceptable to refernce earlier posts. Some of them remained un-completed and IMHO absolute twaddle. so would a week, a month or a year be to far back to drag a subject up again.

Ozzie you may reference posts from as far back as you wish,
The same principle which applies to college term papers, you musn't rely strictly on information from the past week to discuss issues such as the Cold War and whatnot.

If you read back a few months and find a post which intrigues you, bump it back up. Often several of the greatest threads get lost in the whirl of cyber-space for weeks, months, or even years until they are rediscovered.

Cheers,
- Tass

It doesn't take a post every five minutes to keep a topic topical and current.

But as membership increases, if new topics are raised rather than new discussion on existing topics, the first page of "Recent Posts" will become occupied by posts less than a couple of hours old. So then you will be doing archaeological digs for anything carbon-dated to even the day before.

thanks very much for the info