Tim May wrote:
> Many of us have at least two phone numbers: one that is widely
> accessible, published even. Another that is private, often a
> cellphone. In my 6 years of using a cellphone, whose number I do not
> give out to many, I have only gotten two spam calls that I know of:
> both were from a hotel company that I gave my cellphone number to
> when I was traveling. I told them the first time not to call me
> again, that this would make me less likely to use their hotel. The
> second time I yelled. That was more than a year ago and my cellphone
> has remained blissfully spamfree.
Unfortunately, this isn't possible in the uk - the cellphone number space is
something like 80% utilised; wardialling gives a very high "hit" rate, and
although you can't do any pre-targetting I don't think spammers really care.
