[Asterisk-Users] Do not buy "Asterisk for Small Office Setup"!

[John Vogel]

You bet it's for sale! Make me an offer!

BTW I have the other Asterisk book on order too - I'm keeping my fingers
crossed it will be a good one. I'd really like to hand out a good book to
each of my customers. Makes my life easier.

And good luck with Asterisk. It's a lot of fun. 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Remco Barende
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:41 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Do not buy "Asterisk for Small Office Setup"!

But isn't this due to the 'intended audience' for the book?

I just started setting up asterisk, I can dial the test message now (yea! :)
) but I have still to find out how to write an extensions.conf file.

So far I found the book on asterisk.org easier to read than just browsing
thru the wikis but a book for people starting from scratch could be useful
too

Are you putting it up for sale? :)

Thanks!
Remco

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, John Vogel wrote:

> 
> See my previous email but the book is worse than I thought. In 
> addition, to the things I mentioned earlier.
> 
> 1. The table of contents is not a table of contents. The only chapter 
> heading is "Chapter 1". It is impossible to tell what is in what chapter.
> 
> 2. The index is not alphabetized!  This renders it useless. Any decent 
> word processor will create a better index with a push of the button.
> 
> 3. I'm trying to set up fax. Does the book discuss it? No way to tell 
> except leafing through every page.
> 
> Summary - use the wiki, Luke. A Googol search of voip-info is faster 
> and provides much more complete, well written information.
> 
> Well, I said in my previous email that a fair price for this book is 
> $14.95 not $40. I was wrong. This book does the entire Asterisk 
> community a disservice and should not be purchased at any price. Do 
> not encourage/fund the "author" to produce more such rip offs.
> 
> 
> 
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