I really don't like speaking about it, since it's a topic that will
never go away on it's own if we don't speak about it, nor will it go
away if we do speak about it. Remember yesterdays wannabees are todays
newbies, and todays newbies are tomorrows experts, and so on. The
newbies that see this thr
On March 5, 2005 10:48 am, asterisk phones wrote:
> It's nice to see that some people think so highly of
> themselves and are above all others. It's quite
> amusing to watch people like you give thinking so
> highly of yourself and so little of others. In the
> spirit of Asterisk and Mark's organ
It's nice to see that some people think so highly of
themselves and are above all others. It's quite
amusing to watch people like you give thinking so
highly of yourself and so little of others. In the
spirit of Asterisk and Mark's organization-Digium, I
certainly could understand why you aren't
On March 5, 2005 01:39 am, Jonathan Hobbs wrote:
> Ignore them and they will go away.
Only after polluting the list with incessant "How do I do X?" messages, and
then only after subsequently polluting the list with "asterisk sucks"
messages, and then all the bad karma of some clueless twitt who
To paraphrase:
Ignore them and they will go away.
- Original Message -
From: "David Brodbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"
Sent: March 4, 2005 11:04 AM
Subject: RE: [OT] - [Asterisk-Users] W
Jeff Busch wrote and I modified:
***
Asterisk is a Open Source community and supported by volunteers.
Please do the following before asking one of these volunteers for help.
1. Before asking a question, do a Google search
2. After a general Goo
- Original Message -
From: "David Brodbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, sometimes that works. But I've been on a lot of lists where newbies
who thought they were being ignored started flaming people for not
responding to them, writing posts badmouthing the project, hijacking other
threads,
- Original Message -
From: "David Brodbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sure. So say, "I tried a Googling for X, but I didn't have any luck.
Then
I looked at pages X and Y in the Wiki, but couldn't find anything that
related to my problem." People are a lot more sympathetic if you
demonstrate
Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
*snipped
Sometimes it is not the "if" you make a search, often is for new comers
"what" to aks for.
If you do not know the specific term, than you need to ask somewhere,
and I think the list is good for that.
*snipped
no, if you don't know a 'term' you search for a glossar
Title: Re: [OT] - [Asterisk-Users] Why should I answer a Newbie question,therethick!
Look. Lets make it
simple.
In most cases, if a guru is bored or not
interested in a noob question they just ignore it. Personally, I find
myself answering some of these specifically because I am not
Steven Critchfield wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 17:59 -0700, Paul Fielding wrote:
- Original Message -
Look, don't answer lame questions if you don't want to. Flaming a newb
for being a newb is just mean. (they will eventually RTFM or STFW or
they will fail). This is the way of the
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 17:09 -0800, Jeff Busch wrote:
> As someone who is new to Asterisk and Linux (I guess I am a newbie), but
> who has been doing a ton of research, Google searches, and is getting to
> intimately know the wiki, I take offense to Steven Critchfield's
> commentary about newbies.
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 17:59 -0700, Paul Fielding wrote:
> - Original Message -
> > Look, don't answer lame questions if you don't want to. Flaming a newb
> > for being a newb is just mean. (they will eventually RTFM or STFW or
> > they will fail). This is the way of the open source communi
y, March 03, 2005 4:32 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [OT] - [Asterisk-Users] Why should I answer a Newbie
question,therethick!
If you really want to do this the asterisk list is based off of mailman.
You can learn all about mailman here:
http://list.org/
But r
- Original Message -
Look, don't answer lame questions if you don't want to. Flaming a newb
for being a newb is just mean. (they will eventually RTFM or STFW or
they will fail). This is the way of the open source community.
Here Here, I'm with you. I find it a constant source of amazement
If you really want to do this the asterisk list is based off of mailman.
You can learn all about mailman here:
http://list.org/
But really, what are the odds that newbs will know to go there first?
Are you going to moderate it? Someone has to actually answer the
questions you know, if a newb onl
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