[FRIAM] Call blockers

[Steve Smith]

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 <thompnickson2 at 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?
>
>     N
>
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