>>>>> Nikolaus Rath writes: > On Dec 28 2015, Andrew Hyatt wrote: >> To me, it feels a bit awkward to suddenly ask people to confirm anything >> after years have passed - just closing seems like a more reasonable >> approach to me. > As a reporter, I can assure you that I feel exactly the other way around. On other projects, I've sent such "query mails" many years after the original report, and no one was ever bothered by it. And I've received them myself, often only to say "I don't use system X anymore", but it didn't upset me. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2