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.

I am not really following can you provide a more detailed example with specifics?

Thanks for responding Jeff. If I have 2 categories, lets say A and B. A and B are restricted categories and have different users. Using Email-in I want to be able to post something to both category A and B. Currently it is only allowing me to post the message in 1 category, if I include my email in 2 categories it will only post to the category of the first email. I hope that makes it somewhat clearer. Let me know if not.

This would be considered a duplicate topic in Discourse, and not allowed? Why would you want the same exact content in two categories? Google will also penalize you for duplicate content…

Maybe a way to have it post to a single category as a Banner topic? Or maybe Tagging it? (Assuming they’re Watching that Tag)

I hope that google doesnt index it as they are non-public categories. Are use case is that we have different users receiving information in different categories and quite often we want to send both of them the same information. A banner topic or tagging would only work for non restricted access though no?

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?

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sam (Sam Saffron) November 15, 2015, 7:22am 7

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

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