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The Asterisk Mailing Lists
As with any community, there are places where members of the Asterisk community
meet to discuss matters of mutual interest. Of the mailing lists you will find at http://
lists.digium.com, these four are currently the most important:

Asterisk-Biz
Anything commercial with respect to Asterisk belongs in this list. If you’re selling
something Asterisk-related, sell it here. If you want to buy an Asterisk service or
product, post here.
Asterisk-Dev
The Asterisk developers hang out here. The purpose of this list is the discussion of
the development of the software that is Asterisk, and its participants vigorously
defend that purpose. Expect a lot of heat if you post anything to this list not relating
to programming or development of the Asterisk code base specifically. General
coding questions (such as interfacing with AGI or AMI), should be directed to the
Asterisk-Users list.

The Asterisk-Dev list is not second-level support! If you scroll
through the mailing list archives, you’ll see this is a strict rule. The
Asterisk-Dev mailing list is about discussion of core Asterisk de-
velopment, and questions about interfacing your external pro-
grams via AGI or AMI should be posted on the Asterisk-Users list.

Asterisk-Users
This is where most Asterisk users hang out. This list generates several hundred
messages per day and has over ten thousand subscribers. While you can go here
for help, you are expected to have done some reading on your own before you post
a query.
Asterisk-BSD
This is where users who are implementing Asterisk on FreeBSD (and other BSD
dialects) hang out.

The Asterisk Wiki

The Asterisk Wiki (which exists in large part due to the tireless efforts of James Thomp-
son—thanks James!) is a source of much enlightenment and confusion. A community-
maintained repository of VoIP knowledge (http://www.voip-info.org) contains a truly
inspiring cornucopia of fascinating, informative, and frequently contradictory infor-
mation about many subjects, just one of which is Asterisk.
Since Asterisk documentation forms by far the bulk of the information on this web
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site, and it probably contains more Asterisk knowledge than all other sources put
together (with the exception of the mailing-list archives), it is commonly referred to as
the place to go for Asterisk knowledge.

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