# Migrating from Google Groups **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-google-groups/24695 **Category:** Migration **Created:** [February 2, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-google-groups/24695 "2015-02-02T00:32:44Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 17
### Author: ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey) #### Post date: [February 16, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-google-groups/24695/17 "2015-02-16T13:05:37Z")
> [@modius](#): > > But its **not an issue** once they realise its only providing the context the once per topic. > [@modius](#): > > This is not relevant for many list users as its common practice to just keep all emails from the list in their own thread, in your own email client. Actually it **is** an issue **because** there is only context once per topic. Replies don’t always happen to the last message in a topic. So when notifications come, for example [Adding custom fields with custom controls to the user page - #18 by purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-custom-fields-with-custom-controls-to-the-user-page/25256/18) which is an out-of-sequence reply to my message (not the last one), I get no context in the email notification what the author is replying to. If I look up in the previous messages (including the deleted ones!) in the thread in my email inbox, I can only assume he’s replying to the previous post. In that case, it makes no sense at all. And, since I don’t have an email notification of my own reply (which the author was actually replying to, and which I would if I had sent an email by virtue of a mail client keeping replies together in the thread) it makes things even more confusing. ☹ --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-google-groups/24695)._