[Asterisk-Users] Suggestion for noise reduction on Asterisk-Users

[Rich Adamson]

The same has been proposed several times over the last nine months,
both on -users and -dev, and its simply been ignored.

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  From: Kristian Kielhofner <kris at krisk.org>
  Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Suggestion for noise reduction on Asterisk-Users
  Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:13:38 -0600 
  To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>


> Hello all,
> 
> 	This might be one for Digium, but I would like to see some type of Wiki 
> that people would have to wade through before they would get the 
> information on how to subscribe to the list.
> 
> 	This wiki should cover most of the basic stuff that gets asked over and 
> over again just to help reduce the amount of repetition that most of you 
> have probably noticed takes place here.
> 
> 	I understand that there is no good way to solve this problem, and 
> speaking of repetition, it has been covered before.  However, it seems 
> like list traffic has surged in the last several months and the HUGE 
> majority of it are questions that usually are answered with a link to 
> the voip-info.org wiki, because it has been asked before and someone 
> thought to add it.
> 
> 	I think that this URL:
> 
> http://www.asterisk.org/index.php?menu=support
> 
> 	Instead of saying "Blah, blah, blah and here are the lists", it should 
> say something like:
> 
> "...Digium is the corporate sponsor of Asterisk.  Support may be 
> purchased from us, and more information is available here...
> 
> Alternatively, free support may be obtained from the wonderful Asterisk 
> community.  The best starting point is the wiki at voip-info.org [link]. 
>   If your question cannot be answered there, Digium does provide mailing 
> lists where questions may be answered by members of the community on a 
> volunteer basis.  Please see [link] for more information."
> 
> 	Where the second [link] would go to the wiki with clearly-stated posted 
> guidelines and some kind of whizzbang links that take care of a large 
> percentage of these typical newbie questions.
> 
> 	I have nothing against newbies, but I know that I get tired of people 
> asking the same questions over and over, and sometimes I just don't feel 
> like saying the same thing that has been said over and over - "go to the 
> wiki first".  The problem with this is if we don't answer the question, 
> the person asking the question probably never solves his problem and 
> possibly ditches Asterisk altogether, or they just bang at it until they 
> either ditch Asterisk or waste a lot of time in the process.
> 
> 	How many more times do we have to read posts of "I just downloaded the 
> Asterisk and now how do I talk on it?"
> 
> 	Let me know what you think...
> 
> --
> Kristian Kielhofner
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