[FRIAM] Call blockers

[Gillian Densmore]

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 😂 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 <sasmyth at 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 <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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