# Culture and Habits of Mailing Lists and Forums? Are they reconcilable?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/culture-and-habits-of-mailing-lists-and-forums-are-they-reconcilable/15679>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 15, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/culture-and-habits-of-mailing-lists-and-forums-are-they-reconcilable/15679 "2014-05-15T16:29:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![codetricity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codetricity/32/3773_2.png) [@codetricity](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codetricity)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/culture-and-habits-of-mailing-lists-and-forums-are-they-reconcilable/15679/2 "2014-05-15T17:02:04Z")

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This is awesome. Thanks for putting some thought into this. The human usage factors of mailing list software or any type of community software are a big challenge.

Is there any way for a Discourse Admin to create Discourse accounts for people with just their email address?

One common use of a mailing list is to get updates about a physical group such as a soccer club or a ballet club. For example, _we have a party on Thursday, let us know what type of food you’re bringing_. The most common way to get the emails is that everyone sends their email to one person and then the list admin manually adds all the emails in. I was looking for this feature in discourse, but could not find it. Do you know if it exists?

I like your comments because they contain actionable ideas to solve human behavior challenges.

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