I've noticed that quite a few posts on this board indicate that people don't read the thread before hitting reply. So it's not surprising that they don't notice when a topic is more than a year old.
There are no issues with members bringing alive old topics as long as the post made to bring it back up is within the realm of what the thread is all about, whether it be a similar issue, something constructive towards a previous post...If an old thread is brought up just for the sake of bumping, then, i agree, it should not be done..