# "Previous Replies" in email notifications needs threading

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-replies-in-email-notifications-needs-threading/25338>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [17 Febbraio 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-replies-in-email-notifications-needs-threading/25338 "2015-02-17T22:50:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [17 Febbraio 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-replies-in-email-notifications-needs-threading/25338/2 "2015-02-17T23:02:37Z")

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What are you proposing? That the email notification for the post…

1. only shows its “parent”, the post it is a direct reply to (assuming it was a direct reply and not an @name mention or blockquote reply, one among many.. you can have five “parents” for a post if there are five quotes in it.)

2. shows the previous (n) posts “above” this one, **earlier** in the topic stream.

3. shows the next (n) posts “below” this one, **later** in the topic stream

I can see a case for #2, I guess, if you are getting a direct reply to a post nowhere near the bottom of the topic stream.

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