Robert Clayton wrote:
Thanks Michael. Judging from Mr. Minessale's remark I appeared insulting or at the least too demanding. No insult was intended. ... I'll just tell you here on the list what several people helpfully filled me in on privately after Mr. Minessale responded to *my* first posting to the list: he has a tendency to vent, and to take criticism of his software as an insult on his person or manhood. You'll be happiest if you ignore it rather than attempt repeatedly to apologize, since any apology will be ripped up as insincere or insufficiently placating.
Just remember that he writes software for himself, and is nice enough to have designed it better than the predecessor (Asterisk), publish the source code, and license it such that you too can use it if you find it useful... he isn't writing it for you (no matter what he might say), and your support options are to post a question here and get redirected to the IRC group (so there's no mailing list archive of the solution) or go hang out in the IRC group where approximately 99% of the content is about what is "bitchin" and what is "gay" and 1% of the content is useful technical exchanges about the software, at least as of the last time I stopped by or perused the IRC archives. That said, there's a whole lot of other very polite and friendly folks in the community who read the list and are very happy to help newcomers, no matter what their skill level, so I expect that people who can actually help you will respond privately and you'll be able to make progress. If not, there's always "figure it out yourself" or "find another platform" as your choices. Matthew Kaufman matthew@matthew.at