[Asterisk-Users] list proposal

[John Schmerold]

An advantage of a newsgroup is Google's ability to sort newsgroup results by
date.  Many issues are resolved by the * community.  So if I search for BRI
echo & search by date, I'll learn that the problem has been solved & how to
solve it.  If I just search for BRI echo, I to sift thru partial solutions.
I get around this issue by issuing the inurl:2003 directive, but sorting by
date would be nice.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Powell" <andy at beagles-den.demon.co.uk>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] list proposal




I was pondering on this question, and have to agree, splitting mailing list
just means yet another list to join (since there may one day be something
relavant)  and filter locally. What might appear to be a good solution is a
privately run newsgroup on a digium server eg news.digium.com the groups
would be the same as the lists plus one of two more

asterisk-announce
asterisk-groups
asterisk-dev
asterisk-users
asterisk-forsale
asterisk-consultants

of course then you have the potential problem that people can't read these
groups because of blocked firewall ports at their offices etc..

all IMHO

Andy




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On 09/08/2003 at 10:28 WipeOut . wrote:

>My concern with wanting to split the list into so many mini-lists is that
>some will die from lack of membership and it will mean that people with
>problems in that area will be left in the cold.. Similar to how so many
>news groups just sit there unused now days..
>
>If there is really a need to split the list into so many components then
>somthing like phpbb may be better so that there is no management of list
>membership..
>
>I know the topic of a BB style system has come up before and many did not
>like the idea but if one or two mailing lists become 10+ then mailing
>lists can become a headache to look after where a BB system will do it all
>for you.. especually the poor "MS Outbreak" users.. :)
>
>Just my thoughts...
>
>>
>> I think that's a very good idea.  When I started to become active in *
>last
>> December the list was much less congested and Mark usually responded to
>> requests, comments and patches within a few hours.  Now things are
>clearly
>> taking off - good for * and Digium but it's sort of losing the community
>> spirit.
>>
>> Splitting the lists by the channel drivers seems to be a good idea but I
>> think there needs to be a strong link with the development team.  In the
>> case of SIP, it is clearly becoming the protocol for VoIP and many
>people
>> would like the channel driver enhanced or may have patches for it.  I'm
>not
>> sure the bug tracker is the right place for this.  It would be better to
>> have a SIP list moderated by a developer where changes could be
>discussed.
>>
>> Doubtless the same reasoning could apply to ISDN, IAX etc.
>>
>>   Iain
>>
>>
>>
>> --On Friday, August 08, 2003 13:25:10 -0500 Steven Critchfield
>> <critch at basesys.com> wrote:
>>
>> > With the increased traffic as of late, I'm wondering if it is time to
>> > split the list again. Specifically I am wondering if it should be split
>> > along the various VoIP protocols and zap hardware, then leave a general
>> > list that does configuration other than VoIP related?
>> >
>> > The hope is that those asking SIP or H323 questions could get help from
>> > the various supporters while the main list can deal with transport
>> > neutral content like extension logic and voicemail configs.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>
>> >
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