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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10dks0t$3u8pk$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Daniel70   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   Call verification exists.  It kills the bots.   
      
   >--   
   >Daniel70   
      
      
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