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

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 16:50 -0800, Preston Garrison wrote:
> 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 :)

<insert standard message boards suck rant here>

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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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