# Re: Restrict Topic Replies to Topic Owner only

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-restrict-topic-replies-to-topic-owner-only/173418>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-restrict-topic-replies-to-topic-owner-only/173418 "2020-12-15T21:11:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeff\_y](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jeff_y/32/200242_2.png) [@jeff\_y](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jeff_y)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-restrict-topic-replies-to-topic-owner-only/173418/5 "2020-12-15T23:12:37Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, we’ve recently migrated from a mailing list from the 1990s. Ironically, the previous mailing list also had “reply” go to the entire mailing list, so they are requesting a change in behavior.

Users can have some peculiar requests. In this case, I agree with the user that Discourse should follow email conventions when interacting via email. I made a similar feature request to Discourse Meta for stripping “Fwd:” when creating a topic based on a forwarded message: users won’t - and shouldn’t have to - break email convention when forwarding an email to the forum.

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