It seems like it might be nice to have a mailing list to talk about (and to) voip providers for Asterisk users.
It would be a good place to share info about config, pricing news, customer service, local numbers, transient outages, etc. Providers would be encouraged to contribute sales info. Users would be able to help each other out with technical and non-technical issues.
Seems good for everyone and it would keep some of the noise and hurt feelings out of the other lists.
The real goal of the list would be to improve the quality of the experience for customers and suppliers. This is something we need to improve in order for voip to be taken more seriously.
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-reed
Would providers actually contribute meaningful discussion and data on such a list? My experience shows that the majority of providers that I know (and have worked with or for) and who use Asterisk have not once, ever, posted anything to either the -dev list or the -users list. That number is more than ten and less than thirty, to be suitably vague. In fact, the only activity on any VoIP list or organizations from any of the providers I've worked for seems to be... me.
This is not to say that I'm always the only VoIP person at these firms (though that has certainly been the case at several) but it does say that providers are notoriously secretive and closed-mouth, and automatically distrustful of anything that could expose them to the "shame" of running software or hardware that didn't cost them millions of dollars. (<frantic_hand_waving> "We're HUGE! We're MAMMOTH! YOU SHOULD INVEST IN US! We've spent INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF MONEY on this system to bring AMAZING RESULTS to our customers and INVESTORS! It's IMPOSSIBLE to duplicate what we've done! Arrrrr!")
I would love to see a list where this speak-no-evil trend is reversed, but I suspect it would be a very low-volume list. There is already a list called "isp-clec" which (sometimes) covers this ground. See http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-clec/ for details and archives.
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