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Yeah, this can be irritating, but in defense of the new guys... When someone asks a question that's been covered ad nauseam, they're told to use search. When they use search and comment for clarification, they're told to stop resurrecting threads. I don't see the problem with some of the old threads resurfacing; I've learned things from them that the old guard had evidently discussed and put to bed years ago, which I may not have seen if a newbie hadn't commented.