On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:49:52 GMT, ßødincµs²°°° <this.em@il.is.invalid>
wrote:
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>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]

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