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

[Colin Anderson]

>Lets point them to google site:voip-info.org 
>or site:lists.digium.com then.  We do a lot of that once they get on the 
>list.  Why not before?

OK, Ollie J if you are listening maybe you might consider appending those
links to your monthly or weekly list etiquitte reminders. Post them daily,
even. Seems to me that posting 1 daily reminder with links on the top 20
problems is better than 20 posts with those top 20 questions by newbies. At
worst, it's 1 extra email and at best you may save those 20 posts. Something
like:

MOST COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
---------------------------------------------------

1.How to light up the line indicator on your Snom:

http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-2
3,GGLD:en&q=snom+190+hint+site%3Alists%2Edigium%2Ecom

2. Fax modems and Asterisk:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-23%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=fa
x+modems+site%3Alists.digium.com&meta=

3. How come Asterisk doesn't behave like my Meridian with "inbound lines?"

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-23%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=ke
y+system+site%3Alists.digium.com&meta=

4. How do I record calls?

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-23%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=za
pbarge+monitor+calls+site%3Alists.digium.com&meta=

FWIW, I find sometimes that meta-discussions like this and things like top
posting, distro advocacy etc take as much bandwidth as noob questions.