[Asterisk-Dev] RFC: Moderating the Asterisk Mailing Lists

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On January 7, 2005 04:57 am, Brian Wilkins wrote:
> I grew up thinking that no question is stupid or dumb. If someone has to
> respond to the message with, "Read the wiki, here's the link" then so be
> it. Everyone encourages users to search the lists archives dilligently, but
> sometimes after an hour of searching it proves futile because you either
> didn't type in the right keyword. That's where the list comes in.
> Moderating the list too much will scare people away. I believe it is doing
> well in self-moderation and that no one's time should be wasted as a
> message monkey scanning messages all the time. At best, we could automate
> it to an extent.

I think the asterisk documentation project needs to be yodelled from the 
rooftops.  There is some excellent newbie documentation around but it is 
hidden in the sea of posts of newbie questions.

-A.