XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 24/10/2025 4:20 am, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
      
      
      
   > I'm against censorship.  But communications can be destroyed, not   
   > just by censorship, but also by being drowned out by vast amounts   
   > of unwanted off-topic spam, scams, and slop.   
   >   
   > For instance I recently had to await a phone call from a termite   
   > exterminator.  If I didn't answer, he'd assume nobody was home, and   
   > would not show up. So I had to field over a hundred scam calls while >   
   waiting for one legitimate call.   
      
   I was in a similar situation with scam calls some time ago ....   
      
   To make matters worse, for some reason, the phones wall plug is in the   
   main bedroom ... where I don't spend much time unless I'm sleeping ....   
   so, if the phone rang, I'd have to rush from wherever I was in the house   
   into the main bedroom BEFORE the phone rang out.   
      
   Then I brought an Answer Machine so I could wait to hear if it was   
   someone that I actually wanted to talk to.   
      
   So now that Answer Machine (eventually) answers the call and says I'm   
   not home .... by which time the Spammers Dialer machine has usually hung   
   up!!   
      
   Job DONE.   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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