Response to OT rant (was: [ale] Being annoying for no particular reason)

[Bruce Griffis]

Okay - I have to do this, but only once, and only because it irritates and 
annoys. That's a great reason for doing things!

I often top-post. Why? Doing VTAM stuff several lifetimes ago, we always kept 
comments as a push-down stack (meaning - top post!) with date, comments, and 
initials. That way when things inevitably blew up on a Sunday morning and the 
on-call tech got pages, he or she would know what was changed without going 
through reams of change control, and with only having to read a few lines of 
comments.

> > > Yeah, I know, I replied in "top-post" style.  What exactly were the
> > > objections to this?
> > > </rant>
> >
> > As I said before:
> >
> > A: Top posters.
> > Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

And top posting (and off-topic posting) is over for me. Sorry - posting, being 
on Usenet and being annoying are kind of inter-related for me.
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