Ah, thank you, John.

But when I looked at the Illustrator forum thread list it said Last Post 2 years ago (by the OP) and Modify Date 58 minutes ago, although the last post was then 58 minutes ago and the OP and posts #11 were 2(½) years ago.

Indeed, John, but that leaves the date of the OP unchanged.

Here is another thread showing an even greater rift in the timespace continuum, going back into the days of the fair forums, and the number of views is ten times larger, more than 315,000.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/319423?tstart=0

It seems that the time/date of the OP is just about the same as for the other thread, before the latest change by John.

In both cases, there is/was no new post in the first month after the OP.

This makes it rather a coincidence that someone should go in and edit the OP in two old unrelated threads, and rather strange that it should suddenly attract posters in both threads just about one month later.

Claudio,

I am quite sure that removal of a spam post will only change the Last post date in the forum thread list so it looks funny at the top with an old date.

I believe I have never seen or heard of any changes to old posts, including the OP, in the thread itself.

Almost a thousand views more in almost a day with no new posts, so we are well above 320,000.

Yeah, something odd IS happening.

Indeed, Bill.

... with not logical thoughts coming through.

No wonder. Anything may come through a rift in the time space continuum, presumably.

Thank you for looking into this, John.

You are more right thank you think, Bill: it has grown 453 views in an hour and a quarter, corresponding to between 8,500 and 9,000 in a day.

Take cover, everyone.

By the way: now the forum list says the Last Post was 4 weeks ago, specifying the 40th post out of 43, the latest one (43) being one day and a half ago, which is in accordance with the Modify Date.

Edit:

I just saw your post, acres. Maybe this will give a number of the parallel universes.

And what Bill is going to say in the next couple of posts.

It seems to be settling at some 1,100 - 1,200 views every day, 14,133 in the latest 12 days without new posts, now a total of 345,977.

It may have decided to secure its top position in Popular Discussions forever, or until the end, whichever occurs first.

http://forums.adobe.com/community/illustrator/illustrator_general?view =discussions#/?per_page=100

Would it not be a pity to fix it, and never know what might happen, Terri?

If you must, you may start with the thread linked to in the OP.

Ultimately, it may be impossible to say whether it is actually a problem and something to fix.