How on earth do Zombie Threads get reopened?

We’ve relaxed our stance somewhat on “zombie” threads – we used to close them all whenever we saw one. But with all the returning posters we’ve been more tolerant and tend to deal with this more on a case by case basis.

You can always open a new thread and link to the old one – we prefer that, really – but in some cases it makes more sense to return to the old one. It depends.