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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 25/10/2025 2:30 am, Hornplayer9599 wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   So it resulted in you being de-listed ... by/to the Spam Bots. Good.   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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