[plug] Skype - what it is and what it provides

[Brad Campbell]

Nathan D wrote:

> she rarely came online and then Skype was blocked in the UAE.  There

A constant source of infuriation. And when you can get it to work (tunnelling the login servers over 
an HTTP proxy elsewhere) the incumbent ISP makes sure it braindamages your UDP latency enough that 
it's horridly unreliable.

"Sorry sir, we make no guarantees about our quality of service. You can access Google? It's working 
fine then"

Brad
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