Your lack of community spirit disturbs me...
My suggestion is to purge that thread of *all* the fossilized content and replace it with a single post to *modern* rules that work.
It's not a museum, it's a sticky guide for new members and should either contain actual info to be helpful or cease to be to stop confusing newbs.
Lots of mammoth coprolite guides dating as far back as Turbo Pascal are a big problem for the Pascal community.