On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:27 AM Brian J. Murrell <br...@interlinx.bc.ca> wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 11:02 -0800, William Herrin wrote: > > > > I call your phone number. > > Your phone company compares my number against your whitelist. Ring > > through on match. > > If no match, "You have reached Name. Press 2 to leave a message. > > Press > > 3 to enter your code. Press 0 or stay on the line for an operator." > > Ring through on a valid code. > > If 0, the call connects to a call center where a live operator > > evaluates the call. Who am I? Why am I calling? Do I meet the > > plain-English criteria you've established for calls to allow through? > > If no, the operator offers to connect me to your voicemail. If yes, > > the operator dials you, explains who's calling and asks your > > permission to connect the call. > > It really doesn't (currently at least -- until robocallers start using > voice recognition to defeat my system) need to be this complicated or > over-engineered. A simple audio captcha works wonders. > > Hello. If you are a telemarketer, press 1. If you want to speak to > somebody at this number, press 5. > > Anyone pressing 1 gets their caller-id added to my blacklist and is > asked to add our number to their do not call list. In reality all > telemarketers use robocallers so they don't even get that far.
Hi Brian, I don't want to start an arms race with the spam callers, I want to end it. That means: jump directly to something they can't easily defeat. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/
