# Setting defaults to enable mailing list mode-Temporary Solution

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-defaults-to-enable-mailing-list-mode-temporary-solution/25645>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [25. Februar 2015 um 01:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-defaults-to-enable-mailing-list-mode-temporary-solution/25645 "2015-02-25T01:04:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![watchmanmonitor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/watchmanmonitor/32/430970_2.png) [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\
**Post date:** [18. April 2015 um 01:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-defaults-to-enable-mailing-list-mode-temporary-solution/25645/14 "2015-04-18T01:43:57Z")

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For anyone following along.. I’m leaning towards the use of auto-watched categories, as I feel the ability to unwatch any given topic puts more fine grained controls into the hands of the user.

This idea:  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-a-category-perhaps-the-best-kind-of-mailing-list-mode/27507](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-a-category-perhaps-the-best-kind-of-mailing-list-mode/27507)

Combined with links in the footer:  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-unwatch-a-topic-with-a-link/27505/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-unwatch-a-topic-with-a-link/27505/)

would be really nice.

The links in the footer may have to be plugin material, as the last time I heard, at least @sam was not fond of putting lots of links in emails.

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