XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: Hornplayer9599@aol.com   
      
   On 10/24/2025 05:01, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Many years ago, back when I still had a land line, I was getting   
   bombarded with spam dials every day.  Then I saw something on the shelf   
   at Wal-Mart (stop laughing :) ) that claimed to help cut down on those   
   calls.  What you did is you plugged this thing into the wall jack, then   
   plug the phone into the other end.  What this thing did was every time   
   the phone rang and you either picked up, or let the answering machine   
   pick up, it would send out the three tones that lets the calling party   
   know that a phone number is disconnected, or otherwise not in service.   
   When a spam dial hears those tones, they would stop calling the number   
   in question.   
      
   It worked...within a month the spam dials dropped off to almost nothing.   
   Of course, I had to let friends and family and any business I wanted to   
   talk to know that they needed to ignore those tones.   
      
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