It drives me up the wall Mike, really.
It's cool if the thread is reasonably recent, but needing to search for old threads just to post an everyday thing is nothing but anal and OCD.
The amount of times I read the title of a thread, when I see it in the list, and think it is 'new news' only to find it's 3 years old makes me want to throttle the poster for not starting a fresh thread. Topics such as 'Takeover imminent' for example, should be closed.