[asterisk-users] Atlanta Asterisk User's Group Conference Tonight Tuesday, August 26th at 7PM EDT

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 08:36:35PM -0400, SIP wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0400, Asterisk wrote:
> >   
> >> The shared desktop is available using a Java enabled browser at
> >> ???http://callin.xelatec.com/vnc??? with a password of ???aretta???.
> >>
> >> Of course you must first have Zoiper installed and then add a new Zoiper
> >> IAX account with Account name ???AtlaugConf???, Server Hostname
> >> ???pbx.aretta.net???, Username ???guest???, and no password or other
> >> information. Select Show Advanced Options for that account and uncheck
> >> ???Register on startup???. Apply the new account and click OK. Then from the
> >> main user interface, select the new account, go off hook and dial
> >> ???2284???. That should connect you to the conference.
> >>
> >> Finally, for those really brave souls, you can also connect using the
> >> ITAD number of ???2284*455???. ITAD details are available at
> >> ???http://www.freenum.org/cookbook/???.
> >>     
> >
> > Please don't post to mailing lists in non-7bit-ASCII unless you really
> > have no other choice?
> >
> > That's how Mutt rendered your message here.
> >
> > I *think* those ???'s represent smart-quotes, but I really can't tell...
> > and I'm probably not alone.
> 
> Now, Jay... it's the global telecom world! Not everyone speaks ASCII-only.

I retract the tone; the headers clearly say UTF-8; it's my copy of Mutt's
fault; apparently.

> That's a little bit like standing in the United Nations and complaining 
> that not everyone speaks 'murican. ;)
> 
> That said, you're correct. They're smart-quotes. I'm guessing it was 
> copy-pasted from a Word doc or some such.

Yup.

It is, however, rarely safe to assume that Any Given Mailing-list will
tolerate anything other than non-HTML ASCII-7, without advance notice...

Cheers,
-- jra
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