# Mailing list features

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-features/59717
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [22.Март.2017 21:31:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-features/59717 "2017-03-22T21:31:04Z")
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### Author: ![Remah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/remah/32/70590_2.png) [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah)
#### Post date: [13.Июнь.2017 18:36:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-features/59717/5 "2017-06-13T18:36:54Z")

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Are mailing lists passé or à la mode?

Just today, I got an email from [hackingUI.com](http://hackingui.com/) which says that mailing lists are resurgent.

> There has quite literally been a newsletter revolution over the past few years. Email, while almost left for dead a few years ago, is back as one of, if not the best, ways to build and communicate with an audience.

There is clear tension between the Discourse position that mailing lists are outdated and the desire of many users and communities to continue to use email-only communication.

> [@Flood of new topics from Embedded Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flood-of-new-topics-from-embedded-discourse/64341/8):
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> the discourse core team see mailing lists as the past. So at best mailing list mode is a compromise and you will always bump up against difficulties if you try to make it the default way people participate in your community. There are alot of topics about this here on meta you may want to read up on.

Are mailing lists resurgent? Is this relevant here?

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