Illustrator CS6 Rasterizes Drop Shadows When Saving Back to CS

I am working with Illustrator CS6 and when I save a file to an earlier version - CS3 or CS - that has a drop shadow effect, the effect gets rasterized. Drop shadows are not new to this latest version of Illustrator so shouldn't they still be editable when saving to a version above CS?
Thank you.

Actually Gaussian Blur was indeed updated in CS6 to be much faster. All drop shadows use Gaussian Blur, as do outer glows and inner glows. If you need live drop shadows and glows in CS5, then apply them in CS5.

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