Vee closed the thread, and it will remain closed, but I want to at least reply to this. I think a link to an old thread in a new thread you make would suffice, if you encourage members to click the link in the body of the post, they'll likely click it. But if it really is crucial to the point of...
I know this is a thing you've been doing recently, but when the threads are very old (this one being over a decade old), I think it'd be better to just make a completely new thread about the topic, and citing the old thread as inspiration.