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Gordon Henderson wrote:
As you have just pointed out - and open 'directory' will lead to spam calls. A non-open directory will, like Skype, to the eventual death of the system by proprietary forking. Like e-mail, and a billion other things its ID'ing thats the problem and there aint no easy solution to that.... Maybe. But while people like me can make money out of it, we will...However... To make that work, you need to accept anonymous calls and without some sort of centralised facility (paid for?) to authenticate calls, we're going to get voice spam real soon now... I do not allow anonymous incoming calls into any of my systems - so that rules out eNum...
VOIP is a missed opportunity - its like office software in that it uses the computer to emulate 19th century ideas rather than looking at the problem and presenting a solution based on the technology it has available.And update or complete replacement for VOIP is long,long overdue.People are only just touching the surface of VoIP, but feel free to invent and deploy something new though...
Voice IRC:Allow two users to talk personally and then they can be dropped back to point to point? Or leave on the 'board' for conference?
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