On Sunday 06 December 2020 16:40:37 Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:15:50 -0600 > > "Martin McCormick" <marti...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > > I found our old dial-up modem in a box of odds and ends 2 > > years ago and wondered if it could read callerID tones sent after > > the first ring. It can so I started on a perl program that > > initializes the modem for callerID and then compares the strings > > received with a pair of files, one of which is called scum and > > contains callerID name packets of folks we don't want to talk to. > > The other is called good and looks for names of friends or anyone > > else we like hearing from. It is actually scanned first and > > causes the program to abort. > > You wouldn't care to make this software available, would you? > > Consider adding an option to send a fax tone instead. :-)
Make that 2 options, if a fax tone gets an answer, send a fax advising them that sorry, but spammers have used up all the machine paper. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
