# Best Practices on reply-by-email

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-on-reply-by-email/96107>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Tags:** data-explorer\
**Created:** [August 31, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-on-reply-by-email/96107 "2018-08-31T16:27:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![peternlewis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peternlewis/32/108888_2.png) [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-on-reply-by-email/96107/12 "2018-09-04T06:27:05Z")

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We have some long standing (and long suffering!) users who swear by reply-by-email which is why I would never turn it off. I doubt it makes up a large percentage though.

I’d be curious to know what the stats are, how does one run the SQL query on the Discourse database? Thanks!

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