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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article ,   
   Hornplayer9599   wrote:   
   >On 10/24/2025 05:01, Daniel70 wrote:   
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   >>   
   >> 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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