Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Ignorance is bliss in such "invitation-only" groups. What you don't know
can't hurt you. But release the nugget of information that such groups
exist and there is a mad scramble for joining. It reminds me of gmail
Er, how did the conversation shift from silk to my list? Wasn't the
original point that silk was elitist? (And it's relatively easier to
join, even if Udhay does have to approve membership now.)
some post in Silk too to this effect. I guess it is just human (or
should I say, animal) instinct to want to belong.
Scarcity is a well-known driver of demand. A nice book I read is
Cialdini's Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
http://tinyurl.com/4n42cf
Deepa, there are thousands of special-interest or restricted mailing
lists on the Internet. This isn't always because of some sense of
superiority. It's mostly because of some shared interests. If you ran a
photography discussion mailing list, for instance, you'd expect members
to have some interest in the topic, and posts about gardening would
certainly be off-topic. It's the principle of free association.
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