# Discourse Needs help resources and documentation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-needs-help-resources-and-documentation/84243
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [March 30, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-needs-help-resources-and-documentation/84243 "2018-03-30T18:01:00Z")
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### Author: ![BKerr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@BKerr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BKerr)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-needs-help-resources-and-documentation/84243/21 "2018-04-13T14:02:56Z")

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Yes, Jay, I am aware of that. But most of my members are used to a listserv, but even if they weren’t, I think _the terminology fools them_.

As far as I know, for every email product, industry standard, the word REPLY means it goes back to the sender only, and REPLY ALL goes to all. Discourse is the exception. For Discourse, sending a PM is not obvious without guidance.

- Just noting that I have seen [an old discussion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-reply-to-individual-instead-of-topic-forum-mailing-list-feature/44905/23) about this, but I’m not sure if a solid conclusion was reached.

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