# Needs tips on Private Message

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-tips-on-private-message/59203>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-tips-on-private-message/59203 "2017-03-15T19:23:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![sjmscott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sjmscott/32/198290_2.png) [@sjmscott](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sjmscott)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-tips-on-private-message/59203/1 "2017-03-15T19:23:28Z")

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I am transitioning my community away from Yahoo Groups and some of my community has this concern:

_When you receive a message from yahoo groups, you can reply to just the individual user or to everyone in the group._

In discourse you don’t have access (that I know of) to reveal user emails. What is the most efficient way to send an PM in response to a post? For example, you might have an off topic response that you want to communicate directly to a poster.

Are there any shortcuts, buttons, or tricks that I might be missing?

Can you generate a private message from a thread?

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