[asterisk-users] Why does everyone seem to dislike *now?

[Matt Riddell]

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Jim Canfield wrote:
> console and the file editor...both are very nice IMHO. I see no reason 
> to create a "second class" of community citizens.

I think it comes from the fear that without logging into an Asterisk
server and knowing what settings etc you are using, the possibilities
for problems come under a somewhat different scenario.

In the past, you could help someone sort a problem, only for the config
files to be overwritten the next time the user did something in the GUI.

I think that the GUIs are a good idea for the end customer, but for the
person who is supposed to be administering your Asterisk boxes (on a
technical level), they can sometimes get in the way.

The other problem is that if you give control of a GUI to the user of
the system you can end up with a system going down etc because the user
decided to change all the settings.

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Kind Regards,

Matt Riddell
Director
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