From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  INVALID_SEE_SIG@example.com.invalid (J.D.   
   Baldwin) writes:   
      
      
   >Skype was my lifeline home.  I did have affordable phone calling on a   
   >"flip" cell phone -- in fact, it was free, as I was reimbursed for   
   >expenses like that.  But being able to video call from my laptop was   
   >absolutely gold.  And after my assignment ended, I stayed in touch   
   >with some of the locals via Skype, mostly texting but a few video   
   >calls now and then.  What a freaking great tool.   
      
   >After I returned home, MS bought it and it began sucking immediately.   
      
   blissfully forgetting the eBay years, eh?  Just like SNL memory   
   holes the Jean Doumanian epoch...   
      
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