Ken, You'll find in many technical communities (this is certainly one of them) people are usually more interested in the "why" behind a question than the question itself. This is certainly one of those cases. You'll noticed no one (myself included) responded with anything constructive. While I can see how that is frustrating I'll try to explain where this comes from. It would certainly seem more efficient to just answer individual questions as quickly and succinctly as possible: Q: "How do I change FreeSWITCH in the SDP?" A: "Edit line xxx in mod_sofia.c" (or whatever)." The problem is this direct question/answer model often causes behavior undesired by the person asking the question. In this case, it's quite likely you'd come back to the list in a couple of weeks with something like: Q: "When calling device XXX from manufacturer YYY I'm experiencing the following strange audio problems..." Unless the list regulars happen to remember who you are and your previous question about modifying the SDP it might not be immediately obvious that your problem is caused by your previous source code modification. A SIP trace showing the modified SDP may give some hints but it's unlikely that would be obvious as the source of your audio problems. This would cause you unnecessary strife and probably bewilder more than a few list participants. The "veterans" Michael referred to have seen this play out time and time again. They (I'm not assigning myself any titles) know enough to ALWAYS ask more questions. They've seen platforms (FreeSWITCH included) modify their behavior based on the remote endpoint (whether identified by SIP User Agent or SDP origin). We're lucky they are around to share all of their experience and beat us up when we get these crazy ideas in our heads ;). On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Ken Fulmer <kenfulmer@icstechnologysolutions.com> wrote:
Sorry if I came across harshly toward the group. My response was meant for the following remark:
“Wait, so your "competition" can't figure out to use FreeSWITCH, yet they are still competition? I mean, you got people sitting around going "hmm how can bet beat Ken, damn we can't- -- OH FREESWITCH NOW I GET IT!!!"?”
I was merely trying to ask a question to see if it’s possible. I didn’t mean to cause a problem on this user list.
Ken
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