Travis Marlatte wrote:
I can understand both perspectives and, in fact, am leaning toward
preferring top posting.

Same here.

I bottom post, as I always have on Usenet, out of respect to convention.
Over time, I have formed an opinion that top posting or intertwining
comments makes the most sense from a readability standpoint.

To my eyes, what creates the real problems are people who don't trim
long posts combined with both top and bottom posting in long threads.

If a reply is properly trimmed and attributed, the reply is readable and
makes perfect sense regardless of where the reply is placed.