A valid reason for top posting? (GPRS data costs)

[quixote8]

To quote myself from previous linuxsa message :-

"Grrrr ...... bottom posting (as default)
It is tedious, time wasting and annoying to have to re-read or fart 
around with long serial posts that you have already read (maybe several 
times)
IF, and only IF, If is a long series of posts AND  you have not been 
following the stages.
Then, and only Then, does bottom posting make sense.

Im sure this will stir the pot .......    :)  "

Have fun
harry

Rod Whitby wrote:
>>>> Top-posting "This term is generally used pejoratively with the
>>>> implication that the offending person is a newbie, a Microsoft
>>>> addict (Microsoft mail tools produce a similar format by default),
>>>> or simply a common-and-garden-variety idiot." - Eric Raymond
>>>>         
>
> Having just spent two weeks on business in France, with my only email
> link being GPRS (at 1c per Kb), there is one other reason that someone
> may prefer that others use top-posting:
>
> If you set your email client to only download the first 250 bytes of
> each message (so you can tell whether you should pay the extra money to
> download the rest of the message), then top-posting is very attractive
> (especially when people bottom-post without editing the quoted text).
>
> Eric Raymond, who comes from a country with flat-fee mobile data costs,
> probably hasn't encountered this other valid reason for someone (who is
> not a newbie, nor a Microsoft addict, nor an idiot) to prefer top-posting.
>
> -- Rod
>