tektrekgamer.wordpress.com — This is my own blog entry but I feel it is important enough digg because it could be such a massive deal. Looks like telemarketing has finally invaded Skype and may already being seriously hampering its connectivity and quality.
Jun 20, 2006 View in Crawl 4
silbyJun 21, 2006
I doubt this is something that can be stopped. Eventually, VoIP services will become even more widespread to the point where they could become more popular than your standard phone. Think of VoIP like the Mac (easily done for most diggers). It will slowly become more popular and popular and soon there will be widespread telemarketing on Skype just like eventually (unfortunately) there will be widespread viruses on Macs. And although Telemarketers can be blocked (just like spyware and viruses can be blocked) it will still grow and I doubt there is much we can do about it.
zonkzorJun 21, 2006
What's their Skype ID?
editopenJun 21, 2006
Skype is based on Kazaa - we all share bandwidth even if we are inactive
canonmanJun 21, 2006
Here in Taiwan this is actually quite common, at least across the text-based chat system. Fortunately I've always been away when these people call but I often come back to my computer with a few chat windows open and gobbledygook in Chinese sprawled across the screen. Whats even freakier is that I've never given my Skype ID to anyone other than my parents, hell, I don't even know what my Skype ID is!
Closed AccountJun 21, 2006
Just implement a "Report spam" button on the chat window. That simple.
Closed AccountJun 21, 2006
Isn't that the default setting? I don't really see many reasons to allow anyone not on your contact list to phone youBut this isn't really a new big scarey thing, it's an extension/combination of spam-email and normal telemarketing, but made easier by the fact you could extremely easily automate it to call a bunch of harvested skype-names from any number of freely setup skype-names, and there's not nearly as much restriction on online marketing as there is in "the real world", and it's easier online, which explains the ammount of spam-email, and online adverts, and you can opt out of telemarketing phonecalls if you speak to your service provider, British Telecomms have a "BT Privacy" service that does this, if we get any telemarketing phonecalls, you just tell them your on this list and they never call again - Ben