[asterisk-doc] I am new to asterisk..Please help me..

[Ira]

At 07:47 AM 7/12/2006, you wrote:
> > >Asterisk The Future Of Telephony is perfect step by step
> > novice users guide:
> > >http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11
> >
> > I'd tend to suggest it's far from perfect, but having a book
> > to hold when starting out is a good thing.
>
>So how would you improve it?

I can only speak for me, but I would have liked more how to and less 
history. For me the biggest learning curve was creating a dial plan 
and while it's documented there, it just seems to gloss over it.  I 
would think that a perfect intro to Asterisk would spend 1/3 to 1/2 
of the book discussing extensions.conf.  I can't write, or I'd 
consider doing a book on creating the perfect dial plan.  I read it 
which got me here, but once I'd read it mostly I found it didn't have 
the depth of coverage I needed to go where I wanted to go and so I 
started using the wiki which is better but disorganized.

I didn't say it's not worthwhile, just that I don't think it's 
perfect. I own a paper copy and occasionally I pull it out to read a 
chapter about something I've not implemented yet and it's useful for 
letting me know what I'm about to get into and how I might use it, 
but I don't find it much help past that.

Then again, I don't know the goals of the authors. If it was to get 
my interest up so I'd jump in, it worked, if it was to be a manual 
and reference, it worked less.

Ira