Or perhaps the parent commenter is part of the lost generation of email users that never properly used quoted replies in email conversations. And this is not necessarily an comment on the age of the parent commenter, but rather about what email programs were common at the time. I blame Outlook mainly for this, but Gmail hasn’t done much to help here either.

The use of quotes in replies is also part of the article and is definitely a better way to go with bottom replies than the current default of top replies.