# Is this really better than a mailing list?

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/is-this-really-better-than-a-mailing-list/57>\
**Category:** Discourse Feedback\
**Created:** [September 29, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/is-this-really-better-than-a-mailing-list/57 "2018-09-29T01:11:05Z")\
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> I don’t, and it’s nothing to do with “tree form” (I use GMail’s web interface, so I don’t see email in tree form, either - linear form is not new to me and I have a well-developed workflow for linear conversations. It’s to do with “if I scroll back up to read something earlier, I lose my place”.

When the thread is long and you have unread messages you have a back button on the scroll bar. I don’t know exactly the details of this element (or if we need to activate it somehow) but the feature exists. Is this more or less what you were searching for?

![topic_back](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/python1/original/1X/c8f8093c15057d3076989ce959286742eda4a656.png)

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