# (Mailing List) Link to private message

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-link-to-private-message/18897>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [15 Agosto , 2014 15:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-link-to-private-message/18897 "2014-08-15T15:06:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [8 Outubro , 2014 19:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-link-to-private-message/18897/3 "2014-10-08T19:02:53Z")

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> [@lake54](#):
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> One of the “benefits” with a traditional mailing list is that you can email a contributor directly.

To be fair, this is not always true, depending on how the mailing list is configured. 😉

A two-click workaround is to click on the user name at the top of the notification, then click the “Private Message” button on that user’s profile page. But yeah, maybe an extra PM link near the name could be helpful.

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