# 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:** [15 mei 2014 om 16:29 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: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [15 mei 2014 om 20:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/culture-and-habits-of-mailing-lists-and-forums-are-they-reconcilable/15679/5 "2014-05-15T20:01:32Z")

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> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> this functionality is not yet working for private groups but is being worked on

I believe it is available for private categories now, @sam made improvements so invites can also include an “invite” into the private group that you need to be a member of to even see topics in that category.

Previously we disabled the invite button on topics in categories that are private for this reason, but they can be enabled again.

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