[Asterisk-Users] List tips for new subscribers

[John Novack]

RIGHT ON!

Too bad you also didn't post in HTML as well

Perhaps this list needs to be split?
One for the folks who simply want to get it working, and another for the 
self appointed list police  who want to be rude and nasty and are only 
interested in feeding their own egos, all the while demonstrating their 
ignorance in basic Telephony?

Unrepentant top poster

teddy at netpolice.za.org wrote:

>To all new subscribers:
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>This is not a friendly list, and the members are mostly sick of giving away knowledge they reckon someone should pay for.
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>Although you will find friendly replies here and there, you'll have to wade through many obnoxious replies from the * elite.
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>You will have to help yourself until you know enough to not need this list anymore. Then and only then, can join and show off your technical prowess to new subscribers.
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>Nobody here really wants  to help you in learning asterisk, since everyone here has their own "blackbox" solution sitting on a shopshelf somewhere, and they would therefore be helping the aspiring competition.
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>What really ticks us off is that we had to figure out so much ourselves, and you won't go through the pain we did. So we try to force you.
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>This list is similar to many of the *BSD user lists. These are actually not for users, but for hackers/experts interested in the more trivial challenges of their chosen technology.
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>I suggest you look at the archives, I know there is no  search option on the pages, but its not our problem. Cant you use google? I know google doesn't give you much but you must figure out *how* to ask it.  Its been mentioned before  on this list, so just download every digest of every month, and you can search manually for the answer. Once you have done this you'll know how to search these lists using google.
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>Further more look at voip-info.org. We know you've been there. We know you didn't find your answer there. We don't care. This is Open Source: so fix it yourself.
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>You get what you pay for: You want a pbx? Buy one - we suggest froogle.
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>Hope This helps
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>Teddy Versfeld
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