Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars,
said:
>
> This is mainly about being polite. I'm fairly sure uk.misc and alt.autos.bmw
> will be the same, but it's definitely true in uk.rec.cars.misc

No, in uk.misc we don't bother being polite. If top-posting continues
after a couple of friendly mentions, everybody yells abuse and then
killfiles the perp.
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