I'm currently maintaining a large project, and I find these sorts of comments frustrating, because "jeo", "jrm" and "msl" resigned years ago, and their initials are meaningless, since nobody remembers who they are. The names of the users who requested changes should be in version control commit messages, or better yet, in the bug tracker. Using programmers to deal with change requests from Sales, Ops and "Rick Smith" also seems very inefficient - you need some sort of analyst role to control changes and reduce this sort of thrashing.
