Jon, you say: The lack of comment in the following posts should say a lot.

What it says to me is that we had no evidence or experience, then,on which to base a decision. Some of us now have such, and have made a decision based on that. I didn't realise there would be a cut-off date...

And I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist copying this from the top of the thread Jon linked to:

Subject: RE: Hearme-Paltalk New Hearme Now
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 08-Nov-00 - 04:25 PM

This site works well but when we set up a hearme session we should make the room private, because there were some unpleasant visitors when Jacko and I tried it..

Noreen