Asterisk Lists (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Business discussion again)

[Chris Albertson]

As soon as you have more then one list people will ask 
What list do I post this to.  Many will cross post.

One idea is to make up a small example set of questions that
should go to each list.  You might also name the lists
after the questions that are alowed in each.  Such as

-configuration  (how do I make get XXX to work?)
-bugs           (Is this a bug? is there a workaround?)
-biz            (Who can sell be a XXX?  What to charge my client...)
-dev            (coders ask coders questions)
-general        (topics not covered by the above.

The why to test if the above is reasonable is to look at a weeks
worth of posts and see if each post would go into one of the above.
If this catagorization is hard to do that the "list of lists"
I proposed is not right.  


Some problems with the below:  Who would post to a "newbies" list?
Why would anyone want to ask other newbies a question?

WHat is non-tech and how is this different fore "biz".

The idea about putting documentation references on the download
page is good.  You might even force them to read it by having
some kind of "click through"

One other place is in a Makefile.  Have it print a message
like "Asterisk is built. Please see XXX for information of
configuration."



--- Rich Adamson <radamson at routers.com> wrote:
> > So far it seems like the proposed candidates for new lists are:
> > 
> > asterisk-newbies (perhaps a better word?)
> > asterisk-nontech
> > asterisk-biz
> > 
> > Any others as well?  If we were to add another list, I *believe* we
> could
> > automatically subscribe everyone in -users to -whatever to help
> seed it a
> > bit.
> > 
> > The amount of mail on asterisk-users is more than even *I* can read
> in a
> > day, and my job is 100% asterisk.  There probably is a
> justification for a
> > new list, but I think it is less the -biz list as much as much as
> the
> > -newbies.  Keeping a business discussion on -users is probably
> quite
> > useful since often times a business discussion can involve
> technical
> > details of what Asterisk is capable of doing.
> 
> What's the problem that we're trying to fix? (Fragmenting the lists
> into 
> more so we don't have to look at one or more lists, or, is it
> reducing 
> the number of repetitive newbie postings?)
> 
> The second choice is not going to be impacted by the number of lists
> available. As stated several times before, additional documentation
> and
> sample how-to configs would go A Long Way towards reducing noise
> levels.
> 
> In another very popular (but unrelated) list we had the exact same 
> noise-level problem. For that list, the annoyance was primarily
> Windows 
> users asking questions that Unix folks snubbed.  One simple text file
> was
> included that spoon fed the "steps" reducing the noise level to
> almost
> nothing. Proving that people do read if something is presented in the
> 
> proper context. The download-asterisk page has that capability right 
> now. I'd rather see that approach used verses another newbie list or 
> whatever it would be called. I'd even volunteer to submit the page 
> changes necessary.
> 
> The biz list does have some significant benefits, however. Best guess
> is that anyone that has a serious commitment to asterisk would
> subscribe
> to it, and possibly unsubscribe later if the topics don't fit with
> their objectives (even if some technical questions are raised there).
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
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