Of course the correct step would be for you to e-mail an admin, not the other way round...

Wasn't me or Koasati it seems. I guess you kinda did the right thing since you don't know who deleted the post, and nor do I.

A cool thing would be a special board where you could post something only for admin eyes, and where you could only see your own posts along with admin replies... if that makes sense.

It wasn't me either. I never saw it. I'm sure the answer will surface as the sun makes its way around our planet.

OK, had a discussion with the admin who did it, and we decided that he probably did the right thing. We can't just let people start reviving old threads. There is already little space for legitimate posts, as they often get pushed off screen by sometimes already a lot of double posts, so maybe it's not a good idea to revive old threads unless there is a really good reason.  It probably doesn't matter if it's just one old thread once in a while, but we can't let this become a habbit.

So, that's our new position regarding this.

That's probably the most salient theory....

The thread by 'Buzz Hog' [where is he now?] was a quip about the 'coming of age of Wincustomize' [one HAD to have a 'listening-to' thread to be a legitimate website].

At a similar vintage I posted the 'People will hit me, but....' which was the same thing, albeit an attempt to liven up the early message board which was in its infancy and not well patronized.

The latter is still around, the former passed into irrelevancy.

As for wading through a long thread....one can jump to its end with the '>>' arrows....[or to the beginning with their opposites].

The old thread needn't have been removed, but also its revival would set an unwanted precedence where the nostalgia value was outweighed by confusion of time-line which happens often even with less aged revivals...