# Request to Join Group feature and requirement for Message/Mention rights by Everyone
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-to-join-group-feature-and-requirement-for-message-mention-rights-by-everyone/55264
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 6, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-to-join-group-feature-and-requirement-for-message-mention-rights-by-everyone/55264 "2017-01-06T05:30:20Z")
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### Author:  [@scombs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/scombs)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-to-join-group-feature-and-requirement-for-message-mention-rights-by-everyone/55264/3 "2017-01-08T15:53:09Z")
> [@dani14\_96](#):
>
> Every time a new user requests to be in a group, all group members get notified
Correct. I was just not seeing the email notifications under the default settings.
I would like to see a fix here. A current workaround is `Admin > Customize > Text Content` to modifiy the text for `js.groups.request_membership_pm.body` to remove the @mention and replace it with a link:
```
I would like to apply for membership.
https://example.com/groups/{{groupName}}
```
I could not sort out how to pass the {{base\_Url}} variable for the site (so you must insert your URL here).
I also could not insert {{group}} or {{group\_name}} variables for the Group Title in the PM.
**I think the preferred approach would be to just include a sentence with a link using the Group Title.**
`I would like to apply for membership in .`
The workaround above doesn’t solve the issue on removing the requirement for “Everyone can Message/Mention.” Hopefully that requirement will be dropped.
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