# Invite only community and newsletter

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-only-community-and-newsletter/139029>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** invites\
**Created:** [January 18, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-only-community-and-newsletter/139029 "2020-01-18T10:58:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-only-community-and-newsletter/139029/7 "2020-01-18T18:09:25Z")

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> [@merefield](#):
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> You either invite people using email as an identity reference (and effectively pre-approval), OR

The need (desire?) to have an invite link that can be used regardless of the user email address comes up pretty frequently. Use cases include

- presenting a URL at a conference that will allow people to sign up to a closed community, optionally adding them to a group
- sending out an email to a Huge List without generating thousands of unique keys and doing a mail merge.

Sure, having a URL that will allow anyone who can find it gain access to the community is less secure than email-bound invitations, it’s often well worth the pain avoided.

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