On Thursday, 19 December, 2019 12:54, Dan Hollis <goe...@sasami.anime.net> wrote:
>Fact is the telcos make lots of money off spoofed robocalls so they have >zero incentive to stop the practice. That is an easy one to solve. The telco simply needs to provide a free "Call Screening" service that you can activate on your line such that the telco terminates all calls with a message "Please enter <random three digit number> to ring the subscriber line". No valid code, disconnect the call. They still get to charge a termination fee to whomever handed the call to them. Additional features (whitelisting/blacklisting) available for extra charge. >On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Keith Medcalf wrote: > >> >> "CallerID" is a misnomer. It is actually the "Advertized ID". >However, the telco's realized you would not pay to receive advertizing so >they renamed it to something they thought you would pay for. >> >> Pretty canny business model eh? And apparently y'all fell for it, >thinking it was related to the Identification of the Caller, rather than >being what the caller wished to advertize. >> >> -- >> The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven >says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. -- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.
