"ßødincµs²°°°" <this.em@il.is.invalid> wrote in message
news:MPG.1fcc5d86656d44e19896e6@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...[color=blue]
> 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?[/color]

Sorry I think your talking lot of bollards.

I think if a billion dollar company wanted to do marketing it would not
waste effort
in doing it on on this forum where they are despised

The truth is Skype is a VOIP system and in someways it is probably the best
system around, there is no real alternative to skype for free internet
calls, yes you can do it with SIP providers but networks are so small that
the person you want to speak to is probably not using your network if they
are using SIP (even more so for international calls), Skype is for everyone,
even computerphobic people I know have managed to install and run skype,
which would be impossible on most SIP systems with port forwarding and what
have you

Skype also suffers from same issues SIP VOIP does like the ability to
traffic shape at the ISP level

Don't get me wrong I am not a super Skype user, I like my SIP systems as
well, running Trixbox with multiple SIP providers, but SKYPE does have its
place in the world. and without skype the whole home user VOIP sector would
be smaller. How many people on this list first looked at VOIP through SKYPE,
I know I did.

I know I should not feed the trolls, but have done in this case...