Pooh Bear said:

Do you *always* top post in this manner ?

Some do, yes.

If so, is it

a) to be annoying ?

Some do it for that reason.

b) you don't know any better ?

Some use Outlook Distress and do not know any better.

c) you don't care ?

Most top-posters don't I guess.

It's like reading an interview from bottom to top.
What top-posters don't realize, is that each post can and will most
likely be regarded by itself.
In my case, I purge read posts with every new retrieval.
Meaning, I don't get to see what post one's responding to.
There are certain users who don't attribute quotes.
Their posts become meaningless to me that way.

I don't think they intend their posts to be meaningless, but there you
go. OE users don't know better, despite countless referrings to using
Agent or an other decent newsclient.

--
Sander deWaal
"SOA of a KT88? Sufficient."