I am sure that there is a "tick box" to restrict calls to those you
pre-approve.

Regards, Robert

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Jim Cheetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent:   Monday, 6 September 2004 4:55 p.m.
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        Re: Skype

Robert Fisher wrote:
> Anyone on the list tried Skype for Linux?
> 
> http://www.skype.com/
> 
> If so, what do you think of it?

I've just installed it on OSX, as the beta came out a couple of days ago.

It does work, although a colleague of mine (female) has started to feel 
a little threatened by the account listing :-

> Even though listed as offline I have been getting two or three calls a
night (but not answering them) from strange men with South American names. 

I've made successful calls to PSTN phones in the UK - audible lag of 
about a second, but it's interesting how quickly the conversation paces 
itself to that. Haven't managed a p2p connection yet, the far end (my 
mum) isn't very technical :-)

Another colleague was concerned about the amount of state/poll traffic 
going to their servers - if you left the client available all the time, 
he felt that you would be spending a far amount of bandwidth doing nothing.

I haven't investigated the network usage in detail yet, but will do soon.

-jim

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