# 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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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-only-community-and-newsletter/139029/8 "2020-01-18T18:15:37Z")

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I’m pretty sure this is not possible with current vanilla Discourse.

So the question back to the OP is: please describe how you would like this to work?

> [@pfaffman](#):
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> presenting a URL at a conference that will allow people to sign up to a closed community, optionally adding them to a group

So you give them:

- [https://mysuperamazing.com/signup](https://mysuperamazing.com/signup) or [https://mysuperamazing.com/sup3rs3cr3tK3y](https://mysuperamazing.com/sup3rs3cr3tK3y) and anyone can forward this to anyone and they can use the link - what have you gained from the vanilla URL?

If you just use the vanilla URL and use any suitable mail service to send out the mass email and you’ve achieved what you need to achieve?

Using your Discourse to send out this spam is going to risk your sites reputation and all email delivery reliability going forward.

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