Re: lwl sites for the future

From: Paul vander Heyden

As purely a user of Speak Freely, I sincerely hope that it continues.
Frankly, the wonder of this program is that it has allowed my family to
communicate from around the world, sometimes.

What I find distressing is that it is not very intuitive.  Lots of
adjustments etc.  Right at the moment I have a situation where the program
does not work, even though it did for months.  Why?  Good question.

It is the best peer to peer program around, but talking with people behind
NATs, particularly in Eastern Europe has become a real pain.  Getting ISPs
to forward ports and such can be a real task, particularly when you do not
speak the language.

I do hope that development work continues, particularly for simple voice
connections for those with little if any computer training.

Kind regards
Paul V.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Soren H" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [speak-freely] lwl sites for the future


> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:51:06PM -0800, Frank Ibarra wrote:
> > A happy new year to all.
> > Well, with only ten days of life left in one of the most ausome programs
of voice
> > chat to ever hit the net thus far, I see it necessary to post a question
to the list.
> > A few of you have spoken of plans to continue the work on speak freely,
but as far
> > as I know, no full decisions have as yet been posted.
> > I am concerned for the availability of lwl servers in the coming
retirment of
> > speakfreely.
>
>
>
> Speakfreely is continuing on the sourceforge site.  That's a good
> reminder to anyone receiving this who hasn't yet signed up to the
> sourceforge mailing list too!
>
> The LWL servers are not an essential part of speakfreely, and I think
> an alternative will be developed with time.  You can see the current
> status at: http://speak-freely.sourceforge.net/
>
> My suggestion is instead using an LWL server, to establish contact via
> an IM tool such as Jabber, and inform the other party of your current
> IP address through that method.  On the windows version of
> speakfreely, there is a dialog that tells you what your current IP
> address is.
>
>
>
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