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	Skype Outage - don't call us, we'll call you... at some point.

RecordSage

8-16-2007 5:53 PM

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skype, outage, p2p

RecordSage says:

Not quite ready for prime time... they've concentrated so much effort on features - they neglected to have login working correctly, but you can now have a video associated with your mood - incredibly useful, no?

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8-17-2007 10:20 AM

waitee

problem very serious - 18 hours already

8-18-2007 2:05 AM

RecordSage

I'm back on, so apparently they got it fixed. Not sure if that's due to the new version release or what, but certainly they're not scoring any points for the past few days... I had to rethink my recommendation for one of the clients to try Skype phones... hopefully they won't have this happen again.

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