On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:07:43 -0600, Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I look forward to the time when you understand why your > approach to the question was offensive.
Maybe it wasn't so much his questions ("has this been done before?" and "where to post a bounty?") but his very unfortunate choice of a subject line ("Need ... as follows") which if not considered offensive, at the very least will raise some eyebrows. Perhaps a subject like "MOH while Asterisk searches for callee" would have been more helpful. I personally didn't even bother to read the message because of its subject and only peeked in out of curiousity about the responses ;-) rgds benjk > > In the meantime, a little more on how not to be offensive. Asking a > specific question that shows effort will be rewarded with friendly > advice. Asking a question that hist only the highpoints of your problem > with no appearant effort will be coldly received. When you do get a > moment, please find ESR's paper on how to ask a smart question. It will > be invaluable for you when you seek to extract knowlege from others in > the FOSS field. BTW, I do not consider ESR a good role model for person > interaction, but he speaks intelligently on this topic. > > > In the mean time I will learn the old fashion way and buy the > > knowledge I have no time to learn on my own from friendlier folks than > > yourself. > > This was what was soo appearant in your message that was offensive. When > you get this support for free, you need to temper your approach to that > of someone asking a favor from another bust individual. Your message > smacked of self importance and your need to place your problem before > others. Actions like that make people feel this list becomes a welfare > state where those who know must work hard for those who do not wish to > put forth effort. > > > To the rest of the community, my deepest apology, but he deserved it. > > and maybe after this rebuttal, you will see how you deserved it more > than you believe. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Steven Critchfield"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: 11/06/2004 6:55:06 PM > > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial > > Discussion"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need a dial plan as follows > > > > > > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 18:04 -0700, Damon Estep wrote: > > > I need to put together a dial plan for an extension that has this > > > behavior; > > > > Go hire a consultant. It looks like either you are trying to be a > > consultant or it is your homework question. Either way, money should be > > involved for those who would do your JOB for you. > > > > There is a list of consultants on http://www.voip-info.org/ wiki, there > > is also a -biz list for similar things. > -- > Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- Sunrise Telephone Systems, 9F Shibuya Daikyo Bldg., 1-13-5 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. NB: Spam filters in place. Messages unrelated to the * mailing lists may get trashed. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users