>>         http://www.goteamspeak.com/
>>
>> It looks good*, BUT has it got wany of the nasty habits of Skype or 
>> is
>> it a good citizen?

> It is closed-source, just as Skype,

which is why I asked about people's experience of it.

> Since the user base is
> much smaller than e.g. Skype's,

About 1/3 of Skype's userbase AFAIK, which would be substantial.
It's so large (if it is) while relatively uinheard of as it was 
developed for the gamer community to allow globally distributed teams 
to communicate effectively while participating in multiplayer games. 
This tends to be a reasonably "techno savy" community who will not 
tolerate too too much intrusion from their products. My son has used 
it in this capacity for a considerable period and spedka highly of it 
*BUT* I was looking for independent opinions from people who were 
experienced in its use. I can well enough work out all the might-be's 
and cant-see's etc myself, but there's no substitute for practical 
experience from others.


> "Potential security risk" is one of these doublespeak type words. 
> Designed to impress the reader without saying much
> if anything at all.

Only if eg I say it and eg you critique it :-).

I went back and put the "potentially" in retrospectively to try and 
make the meaning clearer. What I was *trying* to convey was:

    Any product that does its very very best to bypass security 
arrangements as a matter of course must be an attaractive target for 
others who would hope to be able to use it as a conduit for their own 
nefarious products. I was seeking to convey not that it constituted a 
ecurity risk in its own right but because it might provide a means of 
attack for others to utilise.

Maybe I didn't make that as clear as I hoped it would be.



        Russell

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