# Why are weekly summary emails on by default?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-weekly-summary-emails-on-by-default/149448>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** activity-summary\
**Created:** [April 27, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-weekly-summary-emails-on-by-default/149448 "2020-04-27T12:53:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-weekly-summary-emails-on-by-default/149448/5 "2020-04-29T14:48:58Z")

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> [@gubikmic](#):
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> I still think that the assumption is unfounded that every user who signs up to some message board is continuously interested in the activity there.

Every discussion community _needs_ regulars to survive, so one mail per week reminding fully absent users of the most interesting discussions – capped at 52 weeks – doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. If it is unreasonable to you, perhaps you should found your own open source discussion project and build it to your liking?

> [@gubikmic](#):
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> I think the default setting should be off; no weekly emails.

Feel free to change that setting on your instance.

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