# 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:** [February 25, 2015, 1:04am 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:** ![JohnOeffinger75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johnoeffinger75/32/37916_2.png) [@JohnOeffinger75](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JohnOeffinger75)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-defaults-to-enable-mailing-list-mode-temporary-solution/25645/15 "2015-04-20T13:44:54Z")

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So the current manual way to set the person to _watching_ is to impersonate the individual and set their category option to _Watching_, correct? You set this to the right on _New Topic_ in the second nav bar at the top.

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