[zcaveman]

I personally think some posts run their course and disintegrate into other than the post topic. I check in on these posts and instead of finding anything associated with the post, I find out that Joe lives in the same city as Beverly and John likes bagels from Maine, etc. Nothing to do with the original post! If posts would stay on the topic I can see them staying open. Once they get so far off of the topic, I think that they should be ended.

I also think that posts that have been around for a long time should be closed with a note in the closing that a new thread should be started if you want to reopen this topic.

Sometimes I open a post that I think is interesting and find out that it is a very old post. After going to the end, I see that a poster has responded to something that was resolved six to eight months ago.

Just my opinion.

Z