Hi Andrew, I sympathise with your opinion. However if someone was to analyse the messaged in the list they would find that the most basic of questions get most replies. I mean those questions that would take a few minutes to answer searching through the wiki or google.
Where questions that are not so straighr forwared get ignored. In my own experiance, every question that I have posted (after hours if not days of searching) has gone ignored. I must add, at no stage though have I felt a reason to complain, as even without answering any of my questions, this list has given me a wealth of knowledge. Thanks Umar. --- Andrew Kohlsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 29 June 2004 02:42, Ralf Van Dooren > wrote: > > But instead of complaining about the lack of > -findable- documentation, > > one can try to enhance existing documentation. > That's the power of > > Open Source. As I am not a coder, I'll be trying > to help the > > community by making the documentation better, > especially for 'new > > bees' like me. > > This is where I have a problem. > > The documentation is centered on voip-info.org and > on Asterisk's plainly > marked "Documentation" link. It's been 32000 > messages since I've signed up > but I am *positive* that BOTH links are provided on > the autoresponder when > you sign up to this list. > > How crystal-effing-clear must things be for people > to go and look for > themselves before complaining on this list? Must we > make the list moderated > and autorespond with pre-fab Google searches that > the asker simply has to > click on and save themselves the trouble of writing > the query into Google's > search window themselves? > > I'm serious here -- voip-info.org's search engine > works. Google works. For > newbies yes they may have some trouble with the > incantations but that's why > they should not be diving in headfirst and then > bitterly complaining that > nothing works on the list. READ, dig around > voip-info and asterisk's site. > There's a WEALTH of knowlege there and most of it is > not cryptic. A lot of > it is even geared to newbies. > > Perhaps a glossary would be helpful but every day I > start to think that basic > research skills should be a prerequisite before > being allowed to play with > any OSS project. It's frustrating for the newbie, > frustrating for the > experts and all around a bad thing. You'll never > have enough documentation > to satisfy some people because they don't want to > educate themselves; they > want to ask questions and get personalized answers. > We do that too, for a > price. That's what consulting is all about. > > -A. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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