[FRIAM] Call blockers

Thu Nov 11 16:18:10 EST 2021

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.densmore at 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 😂 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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