# Hierarchical group membership (groups inside groups)

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**Created:** [March 5, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hierarchical-group-membership-groups-inside-groups/182263 "2021-03-05T22:59:34Z")\
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Thanks! That’s getting closer, although I’ll note that keying off email address often works poorly for me because lots of people have multiple addresses, so I have to verify ahead of time whether I’m inviting the one that’s associated with an account or another one that will be confusing (and potentially set them up with a second account).

I don’t know how the underlying foundation works, but it would seem simplest to allow groups to contain references to other groups.

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