A pass() identity range?

[D Lark]

On Thursday, 2 December 2021 at 13:22:55 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 12/2/21 6:35 AM, D Lark wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 18:49:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> Note the date of post you are responding to.
>
> When the system says "hey, you are responding to a really old 
> thread, let me fix that for you", you should click the button.
>
> Please don't reply to really old threads directly, instead you 
> use a link (which is what the system will do for you 
> automatically)
>
> -Steve

PS: I think this message is unhelpful, unnecessary (since you 
know that the system issues a warning) and is worse than ignoring 
the post altogether (if you otherwise had nothing to contribute).