Spam/Robo calls have driven me (long ago) to virtually never having my
ringer on or answering my phone when it does ring unless the caller is
in my contact list AND I know who it is. I can hardly remember how I
coped with my landline in this regard which I let go nearly 20 years ago.
FWIW I had a co-worker/friend who left LANL about 1984 to go work for a
budding RoboCall company... She was a very clever/capable woman with a
lot of humility and wit, but in spite of her self-deprecating
description of the job/work, she took it anyway. I suspect it may have
been a stepping stone for her to solve the 2-body problem with her
husband who perhaps was about to accept a job in a particular geographic
locale where this may have been located. Such a job would be the
obvious/ideal telework job, but it *was* 1984 (Orwell references aside)
and the state of the art seemed to be luggable thermal-print terminals
with 1200 baud modems, so maybe not. I can't even remember her last
name, or I'd go look her up and grill her on how all that turned out for
her!
On 11/11/21 10:11 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
TELL ME ABOUT IT!!!!
Edd Angel uses nomo robo. because I mostly use a cellphone as my
number would get at least that many multiple times a day, even spam
texts! that cost real money. It got so fucking bad I joke that I have
PTSD from them. I'm trying
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.youmail.android.vvm
for my cellphone with ok results. Just ok. It's free.
Try something that's free. Or at least has a free trial before
dropping 70 bucks to block numbnut spamers and collection callers and
that free cruise. Or some IRS scam from the same 20 people in india.
I don't know how good century links thing is.
I "love" when they call at 6am. Almost funny because it's probly the
same parastic leaches. The even "better" part is that it's not legal.
Tmobiles built phone robo calling thing is almost useless I can tell
you that much. It's so comically bad I know when I've reinstalled or
updated android because it feels like seconds before I find out all
the free cruise after selling a soul or 2. And unlikely to actually be
free to. It's like browsing the web without an addblocker. My favorite
is no matter how many creative ways I find to curse and motherfuck
them and tell them to take me off the spam list? I could be shouting
at a wall for how well it works. Ie it does about jack.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 9:37 AM <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ok. I’m pissed. 4 spam calls before 9 this morning. Century Link
is offering me a call blocker for 70 bucks,
<https://www.centurylink.com/accessories/> which seems to be a bit
CHEAPER than Amazon for the same object. Do these things work, or
is buying one just going to make me angrier when the calls keep
coming anyway?
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