# Mailing list mode and email addresses

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-and-email-addresses/53101
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2016年十一月19日 00:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-and-email-addresses/53101 "2016-11-19T00:00:15Z")
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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: [2016年十一月19日 00:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-and-email-addresses/53101/2 "2016-11-19T00:22:06Z")

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Emails are protected, so that’s not possible. There was some discussion about adding a “PM this user” option to the emails in another topic, but direct discovery and display of other people’s emails? That’d be a massive privacy breach.

> [@Allow reply-to individual instead of topic/forum (mailing list feature)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-reply-to-individual-instead-of-topic-forum-mailing-list-feature/44905):
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> Hello all, I have looked at several topics (e.g., [1](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-the-reply-to-address-in-new-private-message-notification-emails/33454)) and I don’t see that this need has been addressed previously. I am using some forums as direct mailing list replacements. For example, we have a mailing list that we used for some users asking all others if they would like their shifts (e.g., “Shift tomorrow for trade”). In [GNU/Mailman](http://www.list.org/), the correct setting would be to set “reply to sender”. I have clearly articulated in a tutorial how I think people should use the mailing list, but it’s cle…

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