# What is "Mailing List mode"?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 18, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008 "2016-06-18T14:50:14Z")\
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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:** [June 18, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/3 "2016-06-18T17:19:31Z")

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or, you might set it as default if you want your end users to get regular notices of all traffic in all categories, by default.

Useful for closed systems with known sets of users who _should_ be seeing all content. Not as great for public forums, where so much email might be a turn off.

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