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• I dunno... (Score:2, Informative)

  by jordan (120)

  Maybe I'm just not cool enough to get invited, but I doubt that most $BIGCOMPANYs have these.

  I've worked for a lot of $BIGCOMPANYs and while there may be examples spread around here and there, the invitation-only mailing lists I've seen in big companies are usually specific to some technology or problem domain. These are invitation only because you don't even want to bother everybody with the announcement of the existence, not because you are afraid of who might join.

  Think about it for a minute. Do you
  • Re:I dunno... (Score:3, Informative)

    by dws (341)

    Do you really think a big companies' technical forums have that much of a problem with noise?

    Yup. Maybe not all of them, but the ones I've seen have followed a predictable pattern. Some event, which is often a technology shift, drives traffic up. First its signal, and then the noise of people griping that they're not getting their questions answered, following by counter-gripes about attitude, grammar, off-topicness, and so on. Think usenet in the small. Then, for a while, nobody wants to have anything to
    • Re:I dunno... (Score:1)

      by jordan (120) on 2003.11.15 19:29 (#25830) Homepage Journal

      So, have after these forums broke down into too much noise, did you then find the invitation-only email lists?

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      • Re:I dunno... (Score:2)

        by dws (341)

        The noise and breakdown is one of the big reasons that invite-only lists spring up.