[Asterisk-Users] Mailing list growth

[Ling C. Ho]

Would a Forum/Bulletin Board type interface be useful? If there is no 
such forum yet, I can set on up.

...
ling

Iain Stevenson wrote:

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> --On Thursday, January 8, 2004 11:25 am +0100 "Olle E. Johansson" 
> <oej at edvina.net> wrote:
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>> Well, mailing list growth is not only a good thing. It's getting almost
>> impossible to handle. As I've stated before, we need to change
>> Asterisk.org so we can help people in a better way and avoid a lot of 
>> the
>> repeating questions on the mailing list.
>>
>> There's a lot of people unsubscribing, just because of the amount of
>> messages.
>>
>> Asterisk.org needs an FAQ, more documentation on line and ...
>>
>
> I think people tend to migrate to the list that seems the most active 
> and post any question to it - on the basis that it has the greatest 
> number of eyeballs hovering over it hence increasing the probability 
> of a rapid response.  Not much you can do about that.  Asterisk, or 
> more correctly, Digium has hardware as well as software components.  
> So the list has a mix of hardware support issues as well as software 
> support issues - I think that adds a lot to the volume.
>
> For me, the wiki has proved to be invaluable as I've experimented with 
> AGI and the manager interface (I must add some comments to it on this 
> .....). However, it really does need to be complemented by better 
> documentation so that it's easier to understand exactly how some of 
> the advanced features are used.  My usual error is to misunderstand 
> how some feature of * responds because the documentation is ambiguous 
> ... then I plunge into the code and waste a lot of time figuring out 
> what is actually happening.
>
>> From wet and windy Southern England,
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>
>  Iain
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