Skype Handset

[Dotan Cohen]

On 05/07/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> They also filter your email "to stop virus etc" and there is no way to
> opt out except to have everyone use a special address (change the
> verizon in my address to verizononline) to send me an email that
> supposedly bypasses this filtering.  When I tried to sign up for
> wengophone, I wanted to do that, but there was no way they (wengophone)
> would accept an email address that didn't match the one in the headers
> of the message they received.  So I'm screwed & didn't even get kissed.
>
> I've also tried to sign up for the ekiga service, and again, I never
> received the message with the key in it.  Using 3 different sirnames.
> The web page reports you will get a confirming message shortly.  Its
> been about 75 days, what do they call shortly?  All I can conclude, from
> the clues available, is that they have compiled a list of voip providers
> and filter all email traffic from them to /dev/null.
>
> Fair?, hell no.
>
> Violates the Common Carrier conditions?, hell yes.
>
> Will the FCC regulate it?  Congress pulled their teeth & emasculated
> them years ago.  Now all they do is fine radio stations $325,000 for a
> verbal wardrobe malfunction.  Thats more than most stations are worth
> (without the license of course).
>
> Now, if someone knows of a dsl service equ I can get in Weston WV that
> is 100% common carrier compliant, please advise me how to get it.
>
> I'd love to have cebridge come in, they are only 8 miles away and voip,
> vpn, all that stuff "just works" when hooked up to them.  But they don't
> have the cable franchise here, so our other choice is some AOL'd version
> from TW who, last I knew, owned the cable system here.  Which is another
> rant, this is the first cable system in the country with FTTH, but its
> now old & mostly one way.  I gave up & got dish, but thats going out a
> week ago.  Contract for a year is up, service is crap.  We can do
> without it.
>
> Or get cable again, they never took the box off the house.
>

There's legeslation on the table right now on the subject. Do you want
to know why it didn't pass:
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499

What do you think of that bozo?

Dotan Cohen
http://technology-sleuth.com