# Mailing-list-like sign-up process

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-like-sign-up-process/15779>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 19, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-like-sign-up-process/15779 "2014-05-19T20:44:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-like-sign-up-process/15779/2 "2014-05-19T20:50:40Z")

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> [@obvio171](#):
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> I want to start a Discourse forum for a software project that’s just starting

Why not go ahead and start the Discourse forum? There are a number of fairly mature email-only ways of interacting in Discourse, including this preference:

> Receive an email every time a post is made on the forum (unless you have muted the topic or category)

which we call “mailing list mode”

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