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<div>One thing that got very confusing is that when microsoft hoovered up Skype and hotmail you could end up in a situation where you have</div>
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<div>Me@hotmail.com – a microsoft account with Skype</div>
<div>“Mememe" – an original Skype account with the contact email of me@hotmail.com</div>
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<div>You could then manage to top up the microsoft account without realising and the money is gone !!!!! Well gone if you sign in to Skype as “Mememe”. </div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Roger Gibson <<a href="mailto:roger@rcgibson.plus.com">roger@rcgibson.plus.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Roger Gibson <<a href="mailto:rcgibson@iee.org">rcgibson@iee.org</a>>, LUG Chester LUG <<a href="mailto:chester@mailman.lug.org.uk">chester@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, 12 March 2015 11:59<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>LUG Chester LUG <<a href="mailto:chester@mailman.lug.org.uk">chester@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Chester LUG] Recommended alternatives to Skype<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><tt>Thanks. One reason for getting fed up with skype was that
</tt><tt>my account just vanished, with about £8 of credit in it. I followed all the instructions to get it back, but skype were stunning by their silence. Maybe I would not open a Windoze account. I've written off the £8, opened a new account, under the
same skype name, and vowed never to put more than £10 in credit. Maybe accounts just vanish if unused for a couple of months. It is very none user friendly, and I get confused when a click on the site sends you to a web page and you don't realise this.
I suppose I don't use it enough. Thanks for help, and to Les for keeping it live. Must come along soon. Roger.</tt><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/03/2015 17:58, Michael Crilly wrote:<br>
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<div>RedPhone. Highly secure. It's a VoIP service. Checkout SilentCircle too. Again, heavily security focused VoIP service. </div>
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<div>I've not used anything other than those and Skype. I find Skype works really well for me. <br>
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On 11 Mar 2015, at 17:03, Les Pritchard <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:les.pritchard@gmail.com">les.pritchard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>I see you didn't get any suggestions. I've not found a reliable alternative for Skype that works as well on all platforms, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has found something.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 March 2015 at 15:06, Roger Gibson <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:roger@rcgibson.plus.com" target="_blank">roger@rcgibson.plus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Folks, I'm getting very p****d off with Skype. Can anyone recommend a reliable package as alternative. All I want to do is make cheap international calls, including to mobiles, from wherever I am in the world at the time, to wherever I want to ring.
Any recommendations most welcome. Many thanks - Roger.<br>
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