# Email notifications only for users with answer permission

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-only-for-users-with-answer-permission/124257>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 29, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-only-for-users-with-answer-permission/124257 "2019-07-29T08:25:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-only-for-users-with-answer-permission/124257/4 "2019-07-30T17:06:07Z")

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My guess is that yes, it’s rather exotic. Mostly, read-only categories are fairly obvious announce-only categories so that people know not to reply.

The easiest solution would be to either trust your board members to provide useful information (or find a nice way to tell them to shut up 😉 ).

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