I think its as much or more to do with pricing, e.g inviting 'external' folks as guests to single channels is free on paid plans but letting everyone join isn't.
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 11:09, Michael Pearce <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ive just sent you an invite. > > For others future reference > Slack it works a diff than IRC unless you have apache.org email, it seems > to been setup by the ASF as invitation only, you just need to ask on dev or > user mail-list for access, and then someone will be able to invite via > email within slack. > > Ive noticed from being a user of slack this approach avoids some of the > unfortunate issues that occurred in IRC such as spam accounts sending abuse > or junk messages filling the chat room. I assume this is why its been setup > as such by ASF. > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 09:25, brusdev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I read: "You can find many ActiveMQ developers and users in IRC and/or > > Slack" > > on page https://activemq.apache.org/contact/#chat but I haven't an account > > @apache.org. Is there an alternative way to access slack? > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from: > > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-Dev-f2368404.html > >
