[Asterisk-Users] Do people actually answer questions here?

[Chris Luke]

Jean-Yves Avenard wrote (on Jun 28):
> I've only been watching this list for the past 2 days.
> 
> And it seems to be an one way street:
...
> I have to admit I'm rather disappointed with Asterisk, information is 
> probably available but very hard to find ; it seems to be limited to a 
> few privileged people for whom their job is setting up VoIP system

I've only been on these lists for a few hours, and I've only used Asterisk
since Friday and I'm not witnessing any of this.

Yes, information may seem thin sometimes - but it's a relatively
specialist type of open source project. And it's free. And a lot of
the effort behind it is from people in their spare time.

I'm no VoIP expert, but I've spent this fine Monday evening packet
tracing SCCP things and comparing chan_skinny to chan_sccp to what
CCM (which my company has on eval) does. It's tedious - it's laborious,
and I know a number of people have done it before me, but maybe I
can help make sure it doesn't happen again - just like that message
I replied to on the list earlier, which I happened to have worked out
an hour before hand, and dimly recal something alluding to it on
the Cisco site beforehand.

If you can't be bothered to learn how to use google, the Wiki, and 
whatever other tricks you can come up with (reading the source being
a pastime of mine!) then you're probably not cut out for this sort of
open source.

As an aside - I am *stunned* by Asterisk. I have my FXO and FXS ports,
it's H323ing to my company CCM *3000 miles away*, my 7960 talks to
it and it *works*, it emails me when people leave messages at my house
and I'm --><-- this close to hacking something up so it can water my
lawn, or not..

It's utterly F'ing fabulous, and I thank the community who put it together.

Regards,
Chris Luke. 
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