The same has been proposed several times over the last nine months, both on -users and -dev, and its simply been ignored.
------------------------ From: Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Suggestion for noise reduction on Asterisk-Users Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:13:38 -0600 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <[email protected]> > Hello all, > > This might be one for Digium, but I would like to see some type of Wiki > that people would have to wade through before they would get the > information on how to subscribe to the list. > > This wiki should cover most of the basic stuff that gets asked over and > over again just to help reduce the amount of repetition that most of you > have probably noticed takes place here. > > I understand that there is no good way to solve this problem, and > speaking of repetition, it has been covered before. However, it seems > like list traffic has surged in the last several months and the HUGE > majority of it are questions that usually are answered with a link to > the voip-info.org wiki, because it has been asked before and someone > thought to add it. > > I think that this URL: > > http://www.asterisk.org/index.php?menu=support > > Instead of saying "Blah, blah, blah and here are the lists", it should > say something like: > > "...Digium is the corporate sponsor of Asterisk. Support may be > purchased from us, and more information is available here... > > Alternatively, free support may be obtained from the wonderful Asterisk > community. The best starting point is the wiki at voip-info.org [link]. > If your question cannot be answered there, Digium does provide mailing > lists where questions may be answered by members of the community on a > volunteer basis. Please see [link] for more information." > > Where the second [link] would go to the wiki with clearly-stated posted > guidelines and some kind of whizzbang links that take care of a large > percentage of these typical newbie questions. > > I have nothing against newbies, but I know that I get tired of people > asking the same questions over and over, and sometimes I just don't feel > like saying the same thing that has been said over and over - "go to the > wiki first". The problem with this is if we don't answer the question, > the person asking the question probably never solves his problem and > possibly ditches Asterisk altogether, or they just bang at it until they > either ditch Asterisk or waste a lot of time in the process. > > How many more times do we have to read posts of "I just downloaded the > Asterisk and now how do I talk on it?" > > Let me know what you think... > > -- > Kristian Kielhofner > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ---------------End of Original Message----------------- _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
