# Bumping topics or other ways to trigger a new notification / email

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bumping-topics-or-other-ways-to-trigger-a-new-notification-email/246591
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 23, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bumping-topics-or-other-ways-to-trigger-a-new-notification-email/246591 "2022-11-23T22:34:38Z")
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### Author: ![Crashley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/crashley/32/280495_2.png) [@Crashley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Crashley)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bumping-topics-or-other-ways-to-trigger-a-new-notification-email/246591/1 "2022-11-23T22:34:38Z")

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Hello.

I manage a private Discourse forum for our housing community. We have an announcements category which is configured to act a bit like a mailing list (although not “mailing list mode” or “category mirrors a mailing list”). Every account defaults to watching first post on this category which triggers a notification to everyone. Since most members don’t log in that often, this ends up being an email notification, so we treat it like our member-wide mailing list.

We have a lot of social events and I’m noticing an increasing number of reminder posts which is creating duplication and splitting discussion up. I’m considering one approach: continuing to approve these reminder posts and then manually merging the older topic.

I’m curious about other options / ideas. For example bumping the original topic but in a way that triggers a new email notification to everyone, not just moves it to the top of the latest list. I’m also open to plugins.

Thanks!