That's, increasingly, apparently not understood by the average correspondent. Anything other than a continuous block of text preceding a quoted reply ("top posting") may cause confusion.

Don't worry about it, if you are ever confronted, simply explain it. It is a tradition worth defending.

I've found top-posting the type of email fixes this, no failures yet:

Please see my responses inline

> can we make the page do this

yes np

> Does the flux capacitor have enough jiggawatts to make this work?

It does if we don't add anything new

> etc