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Hello Richard!

** 09.04.20 - 19:20, Richard Menedetter wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> Maybe start to annoy THEM?

 RM>Nope :)

"Annoy" them back is truly the best approach.  This guy is hilarious:

   "Telephone spam_scam problem_ Bring in the robots. _ Roger Anderson _  
TEDxNaperville"

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXVJ4JQ3SUw

Too funny!

The phone service he mentions at the end sounds like fun to give a try.

I had an uncle who tackled these things with humour and style. "Thank you  
for calling. I don't get out very much. Do you get out much?  I'd love to  
tell you about my aunt in the old country..."  ..and he would just keep  
talking or tell a story.

I do something similar, but instead of talking, I just tell them I need to  
check the door.. or that I have a call coming in on the other line.. and I  
place the caller on hold.  There are long periods when the phone is  
wonderfully free of telemarketers.  But when they reoccur, a polite  
"Please hold" routine seems to start reducing them again.


 AA>> That one sounds very familiar.  Good to know that there are solutions
 AA>> that  ISPs can implement. But whatever is being done, is not good
 AA>> enough.

 RM>Change your mail provider :)

Most of them seem to get "caught" and moved to the Junk folder on the ISP  
webmail side.  With basic pop/smtp I don't get bothered by the Junk folder  
contents.  But when I occassionally require to use the webmail login,  
there is a great satisfaction to delete the Junk folder in bulk.


  ../|ug

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