# Email updates without signing up

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-updates-without-signing-up/27437>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [10 Abril , 2015 22:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-updates-without-signing-up/27437 "2015-04-10T22:37:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![purldator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)\
**Post date:** [10 Abril , 2015 23:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-updates-without-signing-up/27437/2 "2015-04-10T23:42:20Z")

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Try it out for yourself! 🙂 Go to ‘Preferences’ when you click on your avatar in the upper right corner, next to the hamburger menu.

A visitor needs to sign up ‘fully’ like any other member to use the mailing list features. Even if they sign up and don’t come back, but are instead active by posting via email. That is fine and expected for some mailing list users.

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