Too much scanning. Put your reply at the top where I can find it easily and not go hunting for pieces of it all over the places, like the shoes after the dog got ahold of them.
No. Use a mail reader that distinguishes quoted text properly.
Less cheekily, I think an important part of interleave quoting is editing the original email. I think it's poor form to quote an entire 4 paragraph email and put your 1 line answer at the bottom. The better way is to trim it down as much as possible without completely losing the original meaning and then reply. Quite often this you can trim back to a single sentence which is a direct questions. And any sort of background introductory paragraphs can be snipped away completely.
Interestingly, that's exactly how I read top posted email:
Yes, I'm not sure I agree with all of that since I just got on the thread and haven't bothered to
read the entire uncut history of the message, but your point about cats is will understood.
Bob said:
> three pages of stuff
>
> Alice said:
>
>> five pages of stuff
>>
>> Sue Said:
>>
>>> Something about cats in the middle of four pages of stuff
Your email client doesn't use obviously distinct visual styles for quoted stuff? When someone writes in interleaved style, I just look at the message-bits, and look at the quoted parts for context. It's easy.
