On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:38 AM, Steven Critchfield wrote: <lots deleted>
If you look over the list again, you will see that questions that get ignored tend to get the entire list flamed for not being helpful.
No one here tries to run people off but you will rarely see a message where we treat any one with kid gloves. If a person requires this kind of treatment, they will have to pay a vendor to deal with their system and their personality problems.
As for the documentation complaint, just because there isn't a book
called "asterisk for dummies" yet doesn't mean there isn't
documentation. The current documentation requires work on the part of
the newbie to get at. The wiki is fleshing out nicely. The old handbooks
still exist. There is over 2 years of mailing list traffic to document
the system.
Learning takes time and effort. Asking questions here short circuits the
time and effort. We answer these questions to help out, but sometimes
our answers are meant to eliminate dead ends. Maybe they are not as nice
as you or others would like, but later when you have the knowledge to
share you can decide how to dole it out. Extremely few of us have
received our knowledge from source that aren't otherwise available to
all. So you as well as everyone else here have a great chance of
becoming a peer or better yet surpassing some of us.
-- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A couple comments. One reason people on the list get testy is that this comes up every 1-2 months:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-November/ 027775.html
and somewhere (maybe on the wiki) should be a link to ESR's "How to Ask Smart Questions": http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I know it's been posted to the list several times. It should be part of the FAQ to read it before asking questions...
Later; Tim
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