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For sometime I have been trying to understand how best to allow Anonymous users to register for a newsletter.  It seems that this can be done in a number of ways but all of them have one or other undesirable side effects. The method that I am using at the moment is as follows:

• Create a public group called Newsletter
• Create a profile with the fields that the user is required to complete and include group
• When the user enters the details required and checks the box against the Newsletter group field the user is added to the Newsletter group
• This group can then be used in CiviMail

Up to this point all seems OK with the following exception.  The fact that the Newsletter group must be public for it to appear in the profile when displayed to the user means that anyone who enters the URL which points to that group has access to the entire list of people in the list including the fields that have been captured.

I have been trying to understand how this problem is solved without success.  I am not new to CiviCRM and have been using it in conjunction with Drupal for a few years but I have not managed to get my head around this problem. Please don't say use ACLs without explaining how because I have been trying to work out how to use them and have failed.

Cheers...
Martin Fuggle

The URL is shown below:

• http://<site name>/civicrm/profile?reset=1&force=1&gid=nn

Cheers...
Martin Fuggle