# Moderators can view emails and export user lists

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-can-view-emails-and-export-user-lists/55114>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 3, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-can-view-emails-and-export-user-lists/55114 "2017-01-03T17:27:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-can-view-emails-and-export-user-lists/55114/13 "2018-09-18T21:48:22Z")

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In that case, I’d like to suggest that the action is logged when the list is actually downloaded, not when the download is requested. Forensically, it makes more sense.

Not sure how it is handled with other downloads like backups etc, but I suppose the same logic should apply there.

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