Oh the reflexiveness
Short, sweet and nicely captures the problem of quoted sections in email:
> Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Why is top-replying such a bad thing?
>>> Top-replying.
>>>> What is the most annoying thing in email?
(badly adapted from “this post”:http://www.intellij.net/tracker/viewSCR?threadId=126675#3481688)