# (Mailing List) Link to private message

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-link-to-private-message/18897>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 15, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-link-to-private-message/18897 "2014-08-15T15:06:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![lake54](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lake54/32/121955_2.png) [@lake54](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lake54)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-link-to-private-message/18897/1 "2014-08-15T15:06:19Z")

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One of the “benefits” with a traditional mailing list is that you can email a contributor directly. Discourse (amongst others) prevents this because it hides the user’s email address (a good thing).

Would it be possible to have a link to PM a user, either by going to the website (with the composer on screen, with their username filled in), or alternatively (possibly preferred?) a link to a tokenized email to allow them to initiate a PM with a user via email? So instead of replies+%{reply\_key}, it could be pm+%{pm\_key}?

A post-v1.0 in any case, but would really help sell Discourse to our members.

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