# Are you using a real user to send welcome messages?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [Janeiro 21, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292 "2015-01-21T22:35:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [Janeiro 5, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292/15 "2016-01-05T01:58:32Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> Dealing with the history is a bit of an annoyance though.

Yeah, I have 110k users (auto created with the api, only 30k visited, 10k active) and my pm inbox is wasted 😜

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