After serious thinking Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote :
Most sensible forum sites would loc old threads that had not been posted to
for a long time.

Yes, or at least allow a post, but warn the poster that it is an old
thread.

Its an odd thing to post about anyway, as the answer was to actually deny
access to the mice in the first place. I remember a rat getting into our TV
back in the lat 50s...

Very offensive way to refer to a TV engineer?