<div class="MsoNormal">I am very serious. There is no room (in my opinion) for sarcasm in such a business environment, especially between people that do not know each other.<br><br>The point is that even if my message was confusing/unclear (although it's clearly stated in my message "to which", and from the other direct responses that I received, it seems that people understood, even if I forgot to put "... in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa ..."</st1:place>) or hard to understand, there are too many sarcastic/cynical/rude responses in this list.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">It is not my role to educate people, but I (and I believe that many people in the list agree with me) don't plan to work with people that do not respond to me politely, as I do to them, if I choose to answer their queries/posts.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">In the few months I'm on this list, I found some courteous
and professional serious business partners with whom I'm working satisfactorily, but, as I said, there are many of the other kind, as well, and that's unfortunate.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">David</div> <br><b><i>Linus Surguy <linus@magrathea-telecom.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Oh do be serious!<br><br>My reply may have been sarcastic, but the points were still valid. The list <br>is full of people with a wide range of experience who are more than happy to <br>help. However, they can only do so if you can clear about your requirements, <br>something that was lacking from your request.<br><br>You asked for DID numbers from 'from a country to which calls are usually <br>expensive' - did you mean calls made to that country are expensive, and in <br>which case, which country will be making those calls, or did you mean 'from
<br>a country where calls are expensive to make', and in that case, national <br>calls, or international calls?<br><br>You then go on to say 'such as Africa, South America (the expensive ones), <br>Middle East or others' - given this list, (which are clearly not countries!) <br>did you really mean to say 'anywhere except North America/Europe'?<br><br>Finally, the use the numbers will be put to does matter, a provider will <br>want to know if you have callback or similar in mind as frequently this <br>usage is restricted or subject to different charging. You also say 'little <br>or no volume' - one assumes that you don't need multiple concurrent calls, <br>but it helps if you say.<br><br>No one is after your marketing secrets, but you'll get a better response if <br>you consider the above.<br><br>Linus<br><br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "David" <dst_u@yahoo.com><br>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" <br><asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com><br>Sent:
Monday, February 13, 2006 9:09 AM<br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] "Expensive Country" DID Needed<br><br><br>> Who appointed you to be the list's assumptions manager?<br>><br>> You have no idea what I need these numbers for, and it's none of your <br>> business anyway.<br>><br>> I posted a clear request to the list. If you can't provide an answer my <br>> requirement, no one asks you what you think about it.<br>><br>> I find that there are too many people in the list that have nothing to do <br>> in life except for criticizing other people all the time instead of <br>> letting people work and benefit from the existence of this list.<br>><br>> And to think I was considering at a certain point to buy UK DIDs from your <br>> company. You actually revealed your true face before I entered into a long <br>> term relationship with you.<br>><br>> David<br>> Linus Surguy wrote:<br>><br>><br>> It is a bit much to expect the list to
do your work for you. I'm assuming<br>> from this that you actually want to run a callback service, and are <br>> looking<br>> for 'trigger' numbers, but you don't know what country you want to offer<br>> this to, you want the list to tell you which market to go for!?<br>><br>> Linus<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> ---------------------------------<br>> Brings words and photos together (easily) with<br>> PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.<br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --<br>><br>> asterisk-biz mailing list<br>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<br>> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz<br>> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com
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