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Re: Your opinion on Skype


From: Shawn Merdinger <shawnmer () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:35:51 -0500

Hi Chandrashekhar,

On 8/22/05, Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi
<chandrashekhar.mullaparthi () t-mobile co uk> wrote:
On a Windows machine, even if you shutdown Skype it is still running in
the background acting as a "super node" relaying calls for people who
are behind very restrictive networks. 

Can you please expand on this observation?  Did you see this after the
Skype application is MINIMIZED to the tray or actually shut down; that
is, the application is killed and not listed in the Windows processes?

Thanks,
--scm


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