# Tracking user activity via email

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-user-activity-via-email/56428
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2017年一月26日 23:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-user-activity-via-email/56428 "2017-01-26T23:00:46Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [2017年三月14日 16:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-user-activity-via-email/56428/3 "2017-03-14T16:34:55Z")

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I’ve changed my mind, based on what @erlend_sh wrote in [another topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apply-mailing-list-mode-per-category/47772/11).

Erlend’s idea, if I understand it correctly, adds on to yours by treating reading posts and messages by email the same way as reading posts and messages by web interface. So members would not see gazillions of notifications when logging in after a long period of using mailing list mode. They would also be taken to the correct spot in discussions based on what they’ve already seen by email.

Don’t know if this can be pulled off, but I like it.

Also, as I wrote there:

> [@Apply "mailing list mode" per category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apply-mailing-list-mode-per-category/47772/12):
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> I 😻 this idea in a big way. One of our biggest challenges is empowering people in the community to know when other people have read their post. They also get massively overwhelmed arriving in the forum after a few month or years of mailing list mode to discover hundreds of notifications and don’t know where to start reading.

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