Karl, Yeah, this post is wrong. You've got "acronym" misspelled. Once you fix that then I think it's all good! ;)
Seriously, it's okay to put critical information into the wiki, but perhaps you could remove the tongue-in-cheek comments. -MC On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Karl Vesterling <[email protected]> wrote: > > If that's the case, does this also apply to VoIP gateway services? > > If so, I'll consider phrasing this differently: > > http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Voicepulse.xml > --begin-- > Voicepulse Warning*WARNING!!!* Recent changes (Sep 2008) in VoicePulse > have limited connect03 to only IAX termination. Please remove any entries > that you may have reflecting the gateway below from your dialplan as it will > most likely answer the call and play a message saying something to the > effect of "Your call could not be completed as dialed because we changed our > production environment in an effort to demonstrate what bad engineering is > all about. BAD is an acronymn for Broken As Designed. Please hang up and > make changes on all your switches. Even though we shouldn't have answered > the call and simply ignored it entirely so that another gateway could > facilitate your call, we FELT it wise to seriously inconvenience you by > answering the call immediately giving no other gateway a chance to place the > call. Thanks for using our service and we look forward to abusing you again > in the near future. > *UPDATE* - Problem getting worse, not better *3/30/2009*. I switched DID > providers because of problems w/ Voicepulse, such as echo, dropped calls, > and consistent registration problems hence calls don't get placed and > inbound don't get routed to me. Incidentally, they will not port DID's, > they'll tell you they will, but they don't. > --end-- > > Perhaps just saying, "stay away, far far away. Recommend this service only > to people and/or organizations you don't like or are in direct competition > with" would suffice eh? > > Suggestions? Recommendations? > > Best Regards, > Karl J. Vesterling > [email protected] > 202-461-3231 x0 > > On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Michael Collins wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Michael Collins <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Thanks for reporting back. Please let all the Asterisk users know that >> they >> > are welcome to join us in #freeswitch on irc.freenode.net and that they >> will >> > not be abused like people do in other less friendly IRC channels. >> >> Funny you mention this. Many people report that the way the FS >> community refers to Asterisk in docs/wikis/irc/whatever makes the FS >> camp seem *less* welcoming to them. After all, they identify as >> Asterisk Users and take the criticism as being kinda harsh. Most of >> them acknowledge the shortcomings of Asterisk but are put off when >> someone else points them out. It's crazy, I know. The thing is, I >> remember thinking that too. After getting to know FS better, I didn't >> notice it as much. Nobody likes to hear their baby is ugly --even if >> they know it is. >> > > Interesting. I'd like to know what specifically turned them off. It could > be node 117, but that was written by Anthony in response to dozens of > questions about the subject. In any case, if the Asterisk guys look at the > first edition of the Starfish/TFOT book they'll see glowing praise of > Anthony Minessale and Brian West, so maybe they'll be willing to listen to > those guys since they've got so much Asterisk knowledge. The other thing is > that many people in the FreeSWITCH community are Asterisk refugees. They > left Asterisk for FreeSWITCH because they had some sort of trouble with > Asterisk. If that comes across in the docs then we'll have to see about > cleaning that up. > >> >> At our session, and in general, I've noticed people are more >> interested in hearing about FS when you don't make direct comparisons >> to Asterisk. Besides, FS stands on it's own merit. >> > > Agreed. Direct comparisons can always be slanted in any direction. Besides, > FreeSWITCH stacks up very well against a lot of modern (i.e. expensive) > equipment put out by the big boys (Cisco, Avaya, NEC, ShoreTel, etc.). > >> >> Just what I've observed *and* my 2 additional cents. >> >> Gabe >> > Thanks, > MC > > _______________________________________________ > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org > >
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