XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 26/10/2025 9:48 am, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2025-10-25 09:23:45 +0000, Daniel70 said:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > We've always had an unlisted landline number, which cuts down on spam   
   > calls, although of course doesn't work with robo-callers (computer   
   > controlled or people simply dialling sequential numbers). We have very   
   > rarely ever gotten spam calls at all.   
   >   
   Yeah, I'm thinking the robo-callers can 'sense' when my Answer Machine   
   kicks into action, too. Maybe the Impedance on the phone line is   
   different for an Answer machine compared to an actual Phone.   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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