Nick Fwiw. Me being, me. I for a bit I used this clip to stop robodiallers. because it seemed amusing and appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyenRCJ_4Ww I guess it worked for about 12 weeks didn't get a single spam call.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:12 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. 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