On 22 Feb 2014 14:51, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
>
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
>  > Guys, I had to page through *eight pages* of quotes, at least six levels
>  > deep, before I found a two-line new comment.
>
> Indeed, if you're going to top-post, please do it at the *top*.

FWIW, when I do it, it's mostly due to a combination of the Gmail UI hiding quoted text by default and the phone interface making deleting large blocks of text annoying.

Agreed it needs to be kept under control, but it's unfortunately easy to slip up and overquote given the default behaviour of at least Gmail and likely other mobile clients :P

Cheers,
Nick.