CrashNBrn: I search for posts before starting something new...in the olden days that was known as good netiquette instead of various places' board-police giving it the bad rep of "thread necromancy". :-)
It all depends on the age of the thread, and the value of the contribution of the necromantic post. In this case, I think the thread necromancy was fully justified.
Quite often however, people resurrect threads that have been dead for more than 4 years, for no other reason than to say "I also find this issue annoying", or even worse, to reply with a "I disagree" to a 4 year old post made by someone who has since left the forum.