lol š thats sounds glorius nick! hope it works out. On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 7:49 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Gil, and others for assistance and commiseration. > > > > In the end, the most effective method may be to manage my own annoyance. > > > > The thing that I loved about the Call Blocker (69$) was the big red > button. I might have gotten 69$ of pleasure out punching that button. > > > > n > > > > Nick Thompson > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Gillian Densmore > *Sent:* Friday, November 12, 2021 5:02 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Call blockers > > > > Nick. Know that you not alone on robodialers. A youtuber from canada > called [different from Linus the Linux guy maker]. This linus runs a > company called LKMG it basically does reviewes and industry side back end > work.. He has a 20 minut long rant about the problem. What set him off was > how he owns something call team viewer, and is fine with the version he > has. However their PR, Beta, sales marketing, everyone people for several > months called first at 10 [first not home, then was ish but busy with > setting his companies computers up for remote work. First it was 10, then > 9, then eventually 4-5am. So he called them and read them riot act. and > eventually tolled them on twitter do this again and he'll see them in > court. > > Today I had 10 calls in a row, about your car insurance, at 7am. I was > asleep then! > > Reported the number to Google as spam, it's whack-a-mole. > > > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:18 PM Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 š 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok. Iām 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. 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