That has to be the second most absurd excuse I've ever seen for top posting next to "that's where my cursor is so that's where I start typing".
Part of the blame for that though, I will lay on the bumbling halfwit who originally combined an email and news client into a single program.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the whole Anarchy on the Usenet thing. I'm hip to it, but...
So your common sense tells you to read from the bottom up? It also tells you not to delete that which you're not responding to for the sole purpose of wasting bandwidth and making posts hard to read? You've got some weird common sense there, Sporky.
A: People who top post.
Q: What is the worst thing about the Usenet?