People's feelings on "Necro-Posting?"

[StayPuft]

Again, not sure if this was the right place to discuss this, but I wanted to get people's thoughts. Being new here, I wanted to ask people's general feelings on so called "Necro-Posting," here on the board.

Necro-posting is when somebody posts on very old threads that have long since been burried by newer threads. Personally, I've always felt there is a distinction. I've always felt that, within reason, it is okay. In other words, if you are Necro-posting with short posts like "Cool," or something like that, then that to me is a waste of everybody's time.

If you are actually adding something to the conversation, then I don't see a problem with it. Especially, when you consider new people join forums all the time. How are they ever going to discuss things if it is taboo for them to go back and look at old posts?

However, I wanted to get everybody's thoughts here. Since I am new, I was hoping to do just that. I wanted to look back through as many posts as I can find to see where I may want to add to the discussion. Obviously, only where I actually have something to add, and not just pointless one word responses.

I wouldn't want to do that, though, if it is generally frowned upon here. So, what is everybody's stance on this?