Well done!

[telcoman]

This site is much better than voip.org.uk, which has become an absolute disgrace. I complained to Gradwell, which says that it 'promotes' the site and unbelievably, I was told:

curiously, I was just going through it deleting the spam!

We are working on a completely new site (in progress at dev.voip.org.uk) which will contain a new forum. I am hopeful [sic - hoping] to implement this in the next week or so

Too late, pal. If you'd had a set up like this in the first place, there'd be less of a need for other ones like it. And to think they have the cheek to display IP addresses.

[mattpark]

Welcome Telcoman!

Thanks for the positive feedback!

You comments are interesting. The whole reason i set up this place, is because a while ago, when i didn't know anything about VoIP myself, i punched the obligatory "VOIP Forum" in to google.

Sifting through the spam sales site, i eventually found two or three forums that i thought would help me out. voip.org.uk ranked top - must have be worth it. Nope FULL of spam. Displaying ip addresses to general users, and even guests, is just pointless. Highly annoying. The other two or three we pretty active forums, however, one belonged to Vonage, and one was from Australia. Good for general background stuff, but not at all specific to us limey types.

This place is slowly moving up the google ranks, and is already attracting a fair few hits a day. With a bit of luck some more VoIP legends will find us and start contributing too!

Cheers

Matt

[telcoman]

Well, Vonage is in the UK and its forum does now have a UK section. The Voxilla forum is US-centric, but still accessible for users from the rest of the world.

I remember when voip.org.uk first started, it was also used by Gossiptel. When I posted complaints about their service (they wouldn't recognise my address and postcode because their database was incomplete) on the forum I got abusive messages. In fairness to them, they apologised, and said that they traced the IP addresses to a rival firm - but if they had had a decent forum like this one in the first place, there wouldn't have been a problem.

Equally ridiculous was that some providers would reply to complaints or queries asking people to give them the last four digits of their account numbers - as people could hardly give out them out in full on the forum. Hadn't they heard of the Private Message function?

[MrMan]

I dont remember how now, but gossiptel had my PSTN number, from my account i guess. Someone called from Gossiptel and told me to stop posthing 'nastly' things on their forum.

I was only showing people a comparision of tariffs from other companies

[telcoman]

Gossiptel - have you seen the list of geographic numbers they've got? - it's still so limited. Other companies have a far better choice. They should at least get some London numbers in the 020 3xxx xxxx range.

More classic correspondence with voip.org.uk .

Hi Peter,

By coincidence, I had just signed up to join the UKVoIPTalk Forum,
with others. The redesign of the voip.org.uk wesbite is long overdue.
Instead of displaying IP addresses, you should make people register. If
you
had used phBB, it wouldn't have become the disgrace that it is now.

Yes, I agree, hindsight is a wonderful thing. Hopefully we can resurect
the site and make it the useful site we all want it to be again.
thanks
peter

My response:

Hindsight indeed - phBB has been around long enough.

If you leave your house abandoned for a year, with all the doors and windows open, you shouldn't be surprised if it gets taken over by squatters, pimps and crack addicts. Or is voip.org.uk in a rather more genteel part of cyberspace? Judging by the garbage on the forum, I don't think so.