Hi all, We are using discourse as a replacement to our mailing list system whereby we email to certain email addresses which in turn post to associated categories and then notify the users. http://comms.southsudanngoforum.org/ Unfortunately when you include multiple mailing list recipients in an email discourse only posts in the category associated with the first email. Is there any was to allow discourse to post the identical message in a number of categories? Any help will be highly appreciated.

Why not create a third category that is visible to both A and B groups ?

Id like to avoid that if at all possible as it would become very messy. To have discourse used as a replacement to mailing lists, not allowing posting to multiple categoreies/lists is a weakness. Is there not a setting somewhere that would allow duplicate posts in multiple categories?

Google doesn’t allow it. That’s the main problem. It’s duplicate content and it’ll be penalized in their index. Particularly if it is on the same domain. How to Specify a Canonical with rel="canonical" and Other Methods | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Mostly, this is not deceptive in origin. Examples of non-malicious duplicate content could include:

It does not make any difference if the content is private and not indexed

Does it need to be categories or could you message both groups?

It would have to be categories unfortunately as the posts are emailed in and they would need to appear in the category for users to search past posts.

What happens if a user from group A replies to one of these common topics? Does group B see the reply? What happens if you edit your topic? Does the edit show up in both spots? If all you need to do is disable the dupe check without a concept of shadow topic in two spots it’s a fairly simple change

Group B wouldnt see the reply as group A would be replying to the topic in group A, same with editing. Yes, disabling the dupe check is exactly what Im looking for. Can you point me in the right direction for where to find this? Thanks all for your replies. Im super impressed with the quality of discourse and if I can work around this issue Ill be very happy with it.

If each group is to be isolated from the other discussion would not it be better to have separate topics? I don’t know your use case, but if it is something like What do you think of my idea? Lorem ipsum blah blah It seems it would be easy enough to make “personalization” changes something like Group A, What do you think of my idea? Hi Group A Lorem ipsum blah blah

It makes it very burdensome when using email in. At the moment instead of emailing a topic to Category A and B I have to email them individually and slightly change the text in the second posting to Category to avoid having it refused. Can anyone point out where i can disable the dupe check that Sam mentioned?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) November 15, 2015, 10:53pm 17

@techapj perhaps we can add a site setting to skip duplicate topic/post check?

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