[asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

[Noah Miller]

> It seems to me that everything one may want to know would be contained
> on voip-info.org

Hmm.  Dangerous statement.  There are many things on the WIKI that are
quite outdated, and a great many other things that aren't there at
all.


> People don't ask stupid questions because of a lack of a FAQ to read,
> they ask stupid questions because they're too lazy do to the footwork.

True.  They may not know how to look up the answers to the stupid
questions, though.  I think a FAQ would help greatly in these cases.


- Noah


> Robert Broyles wrote:
>>
>>> I think we'd be better off posting a regular FAQ, perhaps weekly, with some of
>>> these suggestions, as well as providing a link to that FAQ from the mailing
>>> list signup page, along with a STRONG suggestion to peruse the FAQ first.
>>>
>>>
>> I agree with this 100%
>> I'm still pretty new to the mailing lists myself. I don't consider
>> myself a novice Asterisk user, but one of my biggest 'complaints' is the
>> lack of a well documented FAQ or Manual for Asterisk. (Unless one is
>> willing to buy or read O'Reilly's Book - http://www.asteriskdocs.org -
>> which quickly will be outdated again.)  I have made it a personal aim to
>> document all my findings in a blog, so that it's at least searchable by
>> others through Google, in hopes that others might find it useful.
>>
>> But if we had a REGULARLY updated FAQ/Manual ... I think that would
>> greatly cut down on the clutter posts.
>>
>>
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