# Group Messages As Announcement

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-messages-as-announcement/259334>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 24, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-messages-as-announcement/259334 "2023-03-24T20:19:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![cogdog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cogdog/32/116536_2.png) [@cogdog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cogdog)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-messages-as-announcement/259334/6 "2023-03-25T02:11:03Z")

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Gargling with salt water might take care of those coughs.

I am not asking to switch admin role on and off; I maintain a non admin user in another browser for testing and I also use impersonate to see from a users role.

I have been merely looking for a way to use group messages to make announcements that regular users cannot reply to. And yes, in my latest test, I sent a group message and then closed it, and as a non admin user it is completely gone. So that means I would never even see it. What I hoped was a message sent that could be read and not replied to, but it seems not possible.

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