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As a moderator I can and will do that if necessary - but if you re-read what I said you'll see that is not what I'm doing.

I simply suggested (1) if you don't like the new threads (and no-one is saying you must) or (2) you have already answered them all - perhaps you'd like to make a fresh thread of your very own, in which you express new and original ideas.
I am offering you a choice, an alternative.

For an indication of how it is considered bad netiquette, simply have Google search with the word necroposting
I did that and immediately found these - and many, many more:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... croposting
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... =necropost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_%28Internet%29

There are certain activities on forums generally - not just this one - which are regarded as bad practice.
One of them I gave as an example IS USING CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THE POSTER IS SHOUTING.
It's not "wrong" to do this, and neither is it "wrong" to necropost - it's simply not a very good thing to do.
With the shouting, people will very quickly tell you off for doing it (please note I am not suggesting you are doing it - it's just an example), and it's often the same with necroposting, where the topics have been talked out and done with.

Generally, the fact that a thread has not been resurrected for several years (six years, for this thread) is an indication that people are not interested. If they were interested then the topic would have either never died or would have been resurrected several times.
If most of a forum's threads were old topics which were being resurrected, where would the new topics come from? Without new topics posted to replace the old, dead ones a forum would quickly become boring and as dead as the old threads.
A forum lives through the creation of new topics expressing new ideas.

Of course it is, but I'm advising you don't do that for the reasons I have already given.

I suggest you calm down and re-read what was said.
The only person using the words "not allowed", "forbid", "ordered what to do" is yourself, because you're misunderstanding what I said and over-reacting.