# Best Practices on reply-by-email

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Tags:** data-explorer\
**Created:** [31.Август.2018 16:27:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-on-reply-by-email/96107 "2018-08-31T16:27:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![omarfilip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/omarfilip/32/208019_2.png) [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)\
**Post date:** [31.Август.2018 16:48:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-on-reply-by-email/96107/2 "2018-08-31T16:48:23Z")

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The main reason it’s enabled in my community is to retain the old-school life-long listserv members who otherwise would not participate at all.

It would be great to have a clear picture of how much exactly they contribute to the conversations. I’ve asked for [better post by email reporting in the dashboard](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-build-the-new-dashboard/86468/188).

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