# Clearer wording for "reply-by-email" function to avoid mishaps

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/clearer-wording-for-reply-by-email-function-to-avoid-mishaps/57501>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [16 Febbraio 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clearer-wording-for-reply-by-email-function-to-avoid-mishaps/57501 "2017-02-16T21:11:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)\
**Post date:** [16 Febbraio 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clearer-wording-for-reply-by-email-function-to-avoid-mishaps/57501/1 "2017-02-16T21:11:39Z")

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In the last few days, two separate members of my forum have commented at their shock when their reply to a notification email was posted publicly on the forum. To them, it wasn’t at all clear this would happen - they thought they were replying to the person who wrote the post (and whom the email was “from”)

To make things clearer I changed the wording of notification emails ( **Admin \> Customise \> Text Content** \> `user_notifications.reply_by_email`)

# Before

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/f/8f75e2f8cdbfbd5d21e3cd9459e89446f506ff83.png)

# After

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/5/c5e99e8071fbd4a0b79a0ffb77581bf3e3e2d0bc.png)

I think it might be worth considering a change to the defaults here. The affected members really weren’t happy about the situation.

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