Sounds nobel prize worthy! aaaah sounds of "fast" internet in the 80s: nee-nee-nee-neeh-krrrr-hisss-static- static- static- static- pop his screech pop. My "fix" for robocalls is to let people I know msg me, i tend to screen calls because of them-it works for all but 1 person. lol she calls it the most zoomer thing, and please call, because she spends her life on zoom atm.
lol š now, steve, how do you get calls when Tmobile or Verizon is them? or worse your cellphones battery is out? have a old school back up? or no? On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:49 AM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > 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. Iām 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? >> >> N >> >> >> .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: >> 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe <http://bit.ly/virtualfriamun/subscribe> > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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