Actually, it was in the process of dying a natural death, albeit a protracted one, until the pair of you posted on it, thereby bumping it to the top and drawing everyone's attention to it once more!
For the time being, thread euthanasia is on hold - let's see if it can slide down the list on its' own. If not, the doctors will step in...
BTW
However I have to say in the last couple of months it has seemed to have gone a little of track with worthless threads such as this one among many others
Don't agree with you there, on a purely factual basis - however, as you mentioned, reading threads is not mandatory.