# Culture and Habits of Mailing Lists and Forums? Are they reconcilable? **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [2014 年 5 月 15 日午後 4:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/culture-and-habits-of-mailing-lists-and-forums-are-they-reconcilable/15679 "2014-05-15T16:29:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Post date:** [2014 年 5 月 15 日午後 7:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/culture-and-habits-of-mailing-lists-and-forums-are-they-reconcilable/15679/4 "2014-05-15T19:47:52Z")
Thanks @codinghorror - that is the invite button I was referring to above. As discussed elsewhere, this functionality is not yet working for private groups but is being worked on. So I was going to wait until the next update to try this again and learn more precisely how it works. But yes, I think that invite button might well be the “gateway drug” to entice mailing list folks to come on over and join discourse forums. 😉 The invite button only really works for inviting one or two people, however, and does not really help the listowner who wants to move a mailing list over to a group on discourse because they won’t necessarily come. This is happening to me right now on Kabissa.. I have a core team of about 15 people I am trying to entice over to help me learn about discourse, and so far only a handful have moved over on their own! Ideally I would want to impose this on these 15 people and just import them to discourse and add them to the group. This is a common requirement, methinks, and the functionality that would make this easiest for most people is a CSV import, much like Mailchimp, CiviCRM etc and other tools that folks are familiar with for managing contacts. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/culture-and-habits-of-mailing-lists-and-forums-are-they-reconcilable/15679)._