William, I guess it was a bad idea to have on the website one of the examples stating "Much of the information in the book came from the Asterisk Wiki pages". Which is the sole reason for my bashing on the book. I can see having a book like this will ease others concerns on running a free open source pbx that are not familiar with Asterisk. There can never be too much documentation. What are the signate's thoughts on having a lower cost PDF file for download?
----------------------- Harold Workman CCNA, CCNP Cytel Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph. 281-449-4000 x3098 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Boehlke Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] FINALLY! a good book about Asterisk. As an interested party to the Mahler book VoIP Telephony with Asterisk, I would like to clarify a point about it. We encourage anyone who is not an Asterisk beginner to send $50 to the Wiki instead of buying the book, and we acknowledge the Wiki (that's where the confusion began) as a source of some material. That acknowledgement is in one of the sample pages on our site, which probably began the confusion. But the book is the 320 page product of nine months of independent work. We built a dozen systems during the course of writing it to test and implement features and options. Mark Spencer and the Digium technical staff contributed information, advice and equipment. Eight competent engineers, some of them active here every day, gave it a technical review. As a former beginner, in my opinion the index alone is worth the price compared to the time it took me to locate information. Thanks for listening. William Boehlke Signate -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of usedcanon Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] FINALLY! a good book about Asterisk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harold Workman Sent: 08 July 2004 20:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] FINALLY! a good book about Asterisk. what does that have to do with an overpriced book? and i agree with Joe. With this book sourcing most of the documentation directly from wiki, why pay for something thats free? Id rather donate $49 to keeping wiki free to the enviroment. I second that, I think a more reasonably priced book in PDF fromat would have been better. Umar. _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
