[Asterisk-Dev] S/N ratio not improving on -dev

[John Todd]

I hate posting about bad posting, but the -dev list has had a very 
poor signal:noise ratio in the last week or two.  I can no longer 
keep up with -users, and I'm hoping I don't have to similarly banish 
-dev into the Mailboxes That Never Get Read folder.  Please keep 
posts to development topics.  Questions about hardware, parameters to 
launch Asterisk, questions about suitability of Asterisk for X 
application, and the like should go to -users.  People who ask -users 
questions should be replied to once, and asked in that post to go to 
-users without any explanation of a response, because any explanation 
will simply lead to lengthening of the thread on -dev.

This post in itself is noise, and the topics I mention I'm sure have 
been discussed many times before, and so I apologize for repeating 
what has hopefully already been said in a less obvious location. 
However, I probably haven't read them inside a 20-reply Subject: 
thread since the chatter is getting too deep.

Police yourselves, folks.  Think of it this way: would you stand up, 
walk to the front of a room filled with 150 programmers, and ask the 
question you are about to post to -dev?  If you would expect (a) 
jeers, (b) confused looks, or (c) a comment from the moderator about 
how topics should be kept to development topics as you were hustled 
off the stage, then you should perhaps post to -users.  Snarky 
replies to inappropriate questions are just as much misspent time as 
the original question, so keep that in mind as well.

JT