As one of the durps, this did occur to me, but after seeing a few anecdote-type answers (including from some very respectable dopers) I decided to contribute my little mite.
This seems to have been the meat of the OP’s question:
To which my answer would be: not unless they asked more questions at the time, and published them. That was a significant part of the first reply in the thread, which ended with
followed by mostly anecdote.