I don't understand why JT didn't simply close the thread,
I'm just a bear of very little brain (with apologies to Milne) ... all too hard to do that.
The series of threads, however (and once you sort the wheat from the chaff), have a lot of very useful stuff from many very knowledgeable folk. Just a great pity that circumstances conspired to make it all a bit too hard for the crew at the time with due consideration of their, perhaps limited, knowledge base.