# How to handle announcements

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-handle-announcements/49390>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [29 Agosto, 2016 15:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-handle-announcements/49390 "2016-08-29T15:44:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Post date:** [6 Septiembre, 2016 16:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-handle-announcements/49390/8 "2016-09-06T16:13:50Z")

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Ah, that’s interesting.

I’ve avoided group _PMs_ because users have to watch them to get email notifications. But @mentioning always notifies users by email. It’s a wee bit confusing, because it’s not clear from the copy/UI that they were mentioned as a group rather than individually.

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