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

[Anthony Francis]

James FitzGibbon wrote:
> On 9/17/07, *Jim Canfield* <jcanfield at tshmail.com 
> <mailto:jcanfield at tshmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     stuff" useless. My real concern was the immediate '/ignore' for asking
>     about an issue with the *now ditro that actually had nothing to do
>     with
>     the GUI itself. Truth be told, most of my time today was in the CLI 
>
>  
> You may be taking what happened on IRC a bit too literally.
>
> You got plenty of help on your Polycom and call parking issues on 
> 09/14, from some very knowledgeable people.  On 09/17, you asked one 
> question about rPath/Conary and one person did a '/me puts jcanfield 
> on ignore' emote.  He probably didn't even ignore you, it was just his 
> way of saying he wasn't interested in answering questions about 
> packaging systems on a Linux distro he doesn't use.  The simple answer 
> to your question ("how do I get the LDAPGet module") is answered on 
> the Wiki - you download it from the author's site.  The question of 
> "how do I package some arbitrary source code into a conary package?" 
> isn't really germane to #asterisk.
>
> As to the second class citizen point, I think you'll find that people 
> who come into #asterisk asking about problems with their GUI-enabled 
> Asterisk install fall into one of two categories: those who are 
> willing to reduce the problem down to it's non-GUI elements and 
> pastebin the configs and output, and those who are incapable or 
> unwilling to do so.  The former tend to get help from people on 
> #asterisk; IMHO the latter should find other places to ask for help, 
> or pay for consulting services.
>
> -- 
> j.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Three cheers,
Most of these people you are expecting help from are volunteering their 
time and assistance, for you to complain that you don't think you got 
enough service from volunteers is a bit preposterous.

-- 
Thank you and have a wonderful day,

Anthony Francis
Rockynet VOIP