Brian, I agree with you. Google has all the answers, but not the experience. The reason I use lists is to get opinions 'experienced' users. From experience, product manuals say one thing and when the rubber meets the road, its a different story.
Thanks though for your kind comments Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 11:03 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Brian J. Murrell >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 17:43 +0300, James Mutuku wrote: >>> >>>> Please advice on "channel bank" >>>> >>> Dude. There's the cool new website you should check out. It's >>> www.google.com. >>> >>> Seriously. This list is not full of people waiting to do the simplest >>> research at your request. Spend a few minutes and do some self-help >>> before coming here asking the simplest, most general questions. You are >>> more likely to get answers to interesting questions rather than >>> mundane-google-would-have-told-you-all-you-need-to-know-in-5-minutes >>> questions. >>> >>> b/ >>> >> While true to some degree, I assumed he was looking for someone to >> recommend a certain product based on good experiences in the Asterisk >> World. >> > > See, I saw the quotes around channel bank more as the follow question > "what is a channel bank". Maybe it's a language thing and perhaps the > OP can take as constructive criticism to be more to one's actual point > when asking a question. > > If he really did understand what a channel bank is and was looking for > recommendations, something more direct like "Any recommendations on > which channel bank(s) I should consider using?" would have been much > more fruitful I suspect. > > >> Google may be good for getting information but will turn up a good >> many ads too. Most of these ads/sites all claim to be the best. "We >> are the leaders of (such and such)" >> > > Sure, but all of them will give him a good idea of what one actually is, > which is really what I suspect the question was. > > >> An obvious pitfall I met was Citel gateways. Maybe they have improved >> for the Definity line, but going that route a year and a half ago made >> me look very bad. I wish I had asked on the list and got someone with >> some experience to say, "think twice". >> > > Agreed. I wholeheartedly agree with soliciting for and giving product > recommendations and experiences, but questions like "what is ..." most > likely can almost always be answered from google with a little effort on > one's own behalf. > > b. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users