# Is there a way to globally suppress a category from mailing list mode?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [01.Февраль.2017 23:21:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758 "2017-02-01T23:21:14Z")
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [01.Февраль.2017 23:21:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758/1 "2017-02-01T23:21:14Z")
I’m wondering if there is a way to suppress a category from mailing list mode.
There are a few categories that we are suppressing from the home page for noise concerns and I’d like to also prevent them from generating emails.
Is there currently any way to do that?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [01.Февраль.2017 23:30:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758/2 "2017-02-01T23:30:14Z")
You could default that category to muted for new registrations and then [set it historically to muted](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-set-category-tracking-level-defaults-historically/53165?source_topic_id=46987) for all existing users.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [28.Апрель.2019 03:48:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758/3 "2019-04-28T03:48:45Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2019 00:30:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758/4 "2019-04-29T00:30:00Z")
Just confirming what @cpradio said years ago, default mute is the way to go.
In fact as time has passed I have grown to hate “hide from home page” and think this is a feature we should drop in favor of easier ways of applying default mute historically.
With default mute every user gets some level of fidelity, with hide from home page users have no control.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2019 00:45:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758/5 "2019-04-29T00:45:39Z")
If this ever happens I have two clients who will probably walk away from discourse. Hiding posts in those categories for anonymous and logged in users was absolutely essential.
They have WordPress publishing stubs into discourse but have zero desire for said stubs to ever appear in latest.
The feature definitely has utility, but is obviously misused.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2019 00:55:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758/6 "2019-04-29T00:55:49Z")
> [@Stephen](#):
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> Hiding posts in those categories for anonymous and logged in users was absolutely essential.
imo, default mute should apply to anon as well, that is simply an oversight in our current design.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [10.Август.2022 21:24:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758/7 "2022-08-10T21:24:10Z")
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [09.Сентябрь.2022 21:25:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758/8 "2022-09-09T21:25:10Z")
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