# Change personal message from "watching" to "tracking" by default?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-personal-message-from-watching-to-tracking-by-default/180238
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [February 18, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-personal-message-from-watching-to-tracking-by-default/180238 "2021-02-18T18:42:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@sok777](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sok777)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-personal-message-from-watching-to-tracking-by-default/180238/1 "2021-02-18T18:42:59Z")
Hi there,
I have a personal message for a group of about 30 people. Every reply automatically send an email to everyone because by default everyone’s watching the message.
Is it possible as an admin to change the default to tracking or at least change the setting of that particular group message to tracking for everyone?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-personal-message-from-watching-to-tracking-by-default/180238/2 "2021-02-18T20:49:57Z")
I can’t think of any way to do this from the UI, you would need to do it at the command line as a server admin.
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### Author:  [@sok777](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sok777)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-personal-message-from-watching-to-tracking-by-default/180238/3 "2021-02-18T21:36:56Z")
Thanks. Is there a way to change that by default, if not for that particular message?