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

[Preston Garrison]

Has there been any thoughts to moving these to a message board instead 
of email?  I admit to its just getting overwelming keeping up with all 
the lists in my email :)


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-----Original Message-----
From: John Todd <jtodd at loligo.com>
To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
Sent: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:11:52 -0800
Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] S/N ratio not improving on -dev

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
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