| I am unaccustomed to the way a reply is done nowadays in this usenet.
The conventions have not changed in the last decade or two, but the number of people ignoring them (for whatever reasons) certainly has.
Ultimately, people generally top post (and quote the entire article) because they don't think it's worth their time to trim down what they're replying to. Basically, they're saying that their time is more valuable than your (the reader's) time, even though there is likely to be a lot more readers than just the one person posting it.
A very few people will top post *and* trim the article they're responding to, and this works reasonably well as long as it's all pretty small. But in the vast majority of cases, top posters don't trim. | I would better get to charging my new battteries. Thanks to Jim.
Yup.
Ultimately, LiPos degrade, whether you're using them or not. After a few years, they won't work at all, even if you've never used them before. It's best not to buy them and let them sit if you can avoid it.