# Offering a Mailman-like sign-up process **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-a-mailman-like-sign-up-process/63014 **Category:** UX **Created:** [May 19, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-a-mailman-like-sign-up-process/63014 "2017-05-19T14:05:17Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly) #### Post date: [May 19, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-a-mailman-like-sign-up-process/63014/3 "2017-05-19T21:16:00Z")
I would describe our needs a little differently. It’s not that we are mailing list centric. Sure, there are some who prefer email, but it’s a minority. I would describe our ‘problem’ as more being related to the fact that we are a “heterogeneous community”. I imagine large organizations (eg “enterprises”) having similar issues / use cases. I think those use cases may be worth exploring more deeply if that’s an area that discourse wants to do better with in the future. Here were some earlier thoughts on the subject: > [@Topic list tabs for user-customizeable saved filters](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-tabs-for-user-customizeable-saved-filters/40953): > > On some forums with a large variety of content, users will be most interested in topics that fall into a subset of the categories or tags available. When this becomes the rule, rather than the exception, forum admins can configure the home page to be the category listing rather than the /latest page. But then users must choose which door to go down - and they may be interested in seeing a listing from multiple categories at once. A few topics have been posted about this in the past: [Specia…](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specialized-timeline/40840) The several other topics link to that topic describe overlapping problems and ideas… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offering-a-mailman-like-sign-up-process/63014)._