On 31 Aug 2004, at 12:29, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> How exactly do you "play with asterisk"?
> I mean, what is it for?
> Is it of any interest to a normal user?
> I looked briefly at the documentation,
> and it seemed to be a system for setting up a PBX
Yes, Asterisk is the software component of a PBX.
> which is surely not something one would normally want to do?
That depends very much on what one wants, surely.
Niall
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