>> <snip referring to long nights of reading> > Many newbies share this poster's misery, though few may be able to > articulate it as well. Should they be flamed for that? I say no.
Let me add (as a newbie with many projects and a life and a production asterisk pbx) that seeing the constant response of "look it up on the mailing list" on the IRC channel and "this has been discussed many time here so don't be lazy" in the list itself is one thing. But when you do a lot of searching, you'll see that a large amount of messages brought up in a search will be empty of any useful content, not because the person posting couldn't answer the question, but because they refused to do so and then complained about the noise. IMO, if you want to bitch, answer the question, *then* bitch! If you don't have an answer or don't want to give one, use your right to remain silent instead of adding more useless search results. Complaining about the noise in a question thread (of which this current one is not) is just ADDING MORE noise. The community has a clear choice, either attract people who are just getting started (which I'd like to see, we *need* people other that programmers, this is the *users* list) or repel them and keep asterisk in the sorcery domain that unix stayed in for centuries (well, the equivalent of in technical temporal frame.) I don't doubt that there are people who like that idea, but it won't advance the cause of asterisk at all, merely keep it in the ghetto. _______________________________________________ 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
