Additionally, top posting costs people money. Top posters usually don't
trim their quoted material which can get quite long after a while. Those
reading Usenet when they are passing time in the airport, using their
cell phone, have to pay per kilobyte.

That's one place where I disagree - top posting saves money.

Although there may be a correlation between top posters and post
trimming, it is the post non-trimming that costs money (to others), not
the top posting. Actually, top posting saves money for those who, after
reading your comments, don't need to read what you were referring to
(because they remember it), and therefore don't need to download it KB
by KB. It's available however for those who need a reminder. For a
bottom posted message, one must download (often repeatededly) a message
one has already read (or at least parts of it) before getting to =any=
new stuff; that is wasteful of costly KB.

Sometimes top posting is good, sometimes bottom posting is good.

Usually interleaving is best. But there are never any absolutes.

Jose
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