Yair wrote: > 1. there's a big difference between newbies asking specific question > and the "i want asterisk to run my life, make me coffee, and solve my > problems, does asterisk do that?" questions that are appearing lately.
Who else is going to tell them that they need a wife? Do we have to be rude about it? > 2. many of the "list police" are active in the development process > well, so your remarkably clever comments about the lack of help are > uncalled for and untrue. People will help you, but they won't hold > your hand. If you want your hand held, then hire a consultant. Look, I appreciate your display of respect to the asterisk co-developers, but the lack of respect shown to new members here is appalling. I'm active on many lists, and this place is not the friendliest. > 3. get a gmail account and your search issues on the mailing list are > over. In addition, the remarkable new gmail system doesn't mangle your > email with HTML tags, rendering them readable to all. how > revolutionary. the downside is, no smileys. (oh the horror.). > So will you send me an invite? After I accepted it, please forward me the mails I've missed up to today. Maybe we can add a gmail invite donation mechanism on the asterisk support page. > 4.almost everyone here has been quite helpful. once or twice i didn't > follow netiquette (posted once without a subject by mistake) and quite > rightly got called for it. If your ego is so fragile a dressing-down > on a email list from people you don't know bothers you, you have > issues. When was that, back in 2001? Yes, I do have issues. I think this list should split into something like Asterisk-oldschool-elite, and Asterisk-users-friendly > And specifically in this case, recyclying a subject line that > has nothing to do with your email is just lazy and screws up threads. Oh beg I your pardon, but I didn't have access to previous messages to spot that this subject was already taken. Is it so impossible to believe that I typed that subject myself? Regards Teddy _______________________________________________ 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
