asterisk users - Jul 2004 - Do not buy "Asterisk for Small Office Setup"!

See my previous email but the book is worse than I thought. In addition, to
the things I mentioned earlier.

1. The table of contents is not a table of contents. The only chapter
heading is "Chapter 1". It is impossible to tell what is in what
chapter.

2. The index is not alphabetized!  This renders it useless. Any decent word
processor will create a better index with a push of the button.

3. I'm trying to set up fax. Does the book discuss it? No way to tell except
leafing through every page.

Summary - use the wiki, Luke. A Googol search of voip-info is faster and
provides much more complete, well written information.

Well, I said in my previous email that a fair price for this book is $14.95
not $40. I was wrong. This book does the entire Asterisk community a
disservice and should not be purchased at any price. Do not encourage/fund
the "author" to produce more such rip offs.


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But isn't this due to the 'intended audience' for the book?

I just started setting up asterisk, I can dial the test message now (yea! :)
) but I have still to find out how to write an extensions.conf file.

So far I found the book on asterisk.org easier to read than just 
browsing thru the wikis but a book for people starting from scratch could 
be useful too

Are you putting it up for sale? :)

Thanks!
Remco

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, John Vogel wrote:
> 
> See my previous email but the book is worse than I thought. In addition, to
> the things I mentioned earlier.
> 
> 1. The table of contents is not a table of contents. The only chapter
> heading is "Chapter 1". It is impossible to tell what is in what
chapter.
> 
> 2. The index is not alphabetized!  This renders it useless. Any decent word
> processor will create a better index with a push of the button.
> 
> 3. I'm trying to set up fax. Does the book discuss it? No way to tell
except
> leafing through every page.
> 
> Summary - use the wiki, Luke. A Googol search of voip-info is faster and
> provides much more complete, well written information.
> 
> Well, I said in my previous email that a fair price for this book is $14.95
> not $40. I was wrong. This book does the entire Asterisk community a
> disservice and should not be purchased at any price. Do not encourage/fund
> the "author" to produce more such rip offs.
> 
> 
>