"ßødincµs²°°°" <this.em@il.is.invalid> wrote in message
news:MPG.1fcc5d86656d44e19896e6@text.news.blueyond er.co.uk...
> I'm starting to suspect that we are seeing some nasty marketing
> techniques infecting this newsgroup.
> Too many "pro-Skype" messages, with too many trolls talking wonders
> about the easiness of this, the affordability of that, etc... and
> arguing against the "serious" stuff.
> The suspect is that these people are bribed by Skype to advertise it
> with the "viral marketing" technique to infiltrate relevant newsgroups,
> and outweighing the balance to their (economic) advantage.
> Any newbie reading some recent messages could get the big picture wrong.
> Can we stick to the chapter, and talk about Voice over IP?
> Skype is an Instant Messaging system, like Yahoo (that was doing voice
> chat AGES before Skype) or MSN.
> It doesn't belong to VoIP, the VoIP protocols are SIP and H323.
> I don't want to sound "geek", but can we have a breath of fresh air?
>
> TA
>
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Fine by me.
Personally I'm not a big Skype fan.
Its okay, but you need your PC switched on all the time to use it seriously
as a phone service.
Not very green is it.
Useless to those of us with SIP phones...
Say no more. The S word will pass my lips no more.