Comments on: Getting the drop on telemarketers http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17662 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17662/comment-page-1#comment-891661 Reader's Write Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:06:10 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17662#comment-891661 WELL!!! When did your system start giving a limit on how long a post could be? ?:| WELL!!! When did your system start giving a limit on how long a post could be? ?:|

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17662/comment-page-1#comment-891660 Reader's Write Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:03:32 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17662#comment-891660 I live in the USA. For close to two decades I've paid good money (it's risen to about $3+) to have my land line phone number "Totally Silent", meaning that it is NOT listed in the phone book and can NOT be given out by "Information" (though I could have it fixed so that my name and number don't show up on someone else's CID I haven't had the need for that due to the use of "* 67" for anonymity on the rare occasions I feel that it's necessary). Even with my number being "Silent", I was getting quite a bit of 'phone spam' until I registered my number with BOTH my State and National DNCLs. After I registered my land line and cell phone with both registries I still got a handful of calls on the land line (the cell was new enough back then that that number hadn't had time to 'circulate'). On the few spam calls I got (after getting *their* info) I simply stated that, "I am registered with BOTH my State and the National DNCLs, that I AM GOING to REPORT YOU!!!!! DO _*NOT*_ CALL THIS NUMBER _*AGAIN*_!!!!!" I then simply hung up on them and immediately reported them to both registries. It didn't take too many of those for the calls to stop. Now, if I do not recognize a number on my Caller ID I simply do not answer it. My L-L has no answering machine...hehehe. :D Those few that I do want to hear from know that if they don't get me on my L-L (I'm not home in that case and) to call my cell and [at least] leave a message so I can get back to them in the rare occasion that I still do not answer. They all know my feelings about spam in general including phone spam so they all understand and comply. These three very SIMPLE, lawful solutions to the phone spam problem [here in the States] are what keep me down to ...MAYBE... I live in the USA. For close to two decades I’ve paid good money (it’s risen to about $3+) to have my land line phone number “Totally Silent”, meaning that it is NOT listed in the phone book and can NOT be given out by “Information” (though I could have it fixed so that my name and number don’t show up on someone else’s CID I haven’t had the need for that due to the use of “* 67″ for anonymity on the rare occasions I feel that it’s necessary). Even with my number being “Silent”, I was getting quite a bit of ‘phone spam’ until I registered my number with BOTH my State and National DNCLs. After I registered my land line and cell phone with both registries I still got a handful of calls on the land line (the cell was new enough back then that that number hadn’t had time to ‘circulate’). On the few spam calls I got (after getting *their* info) I simply stated that, “I am registered with BOTH my State and the National DNCLs, that I AM GOING to REPORT YOU!!!!! DO _*NOT*_ CALL THIS NUMBER _*AGAIN*_!!!!!” I then simply hung up on them and immediately reported them to both registries. It didn’t take too many of those for the calls to stop. Now, if I do not recognize a number on my Caller ID I simply do not answer it. My L-L has no answering machine…hehehe. :D Those few that I do want to hear from know that if they don’t get me on my L-L (I’m not home in that case and) to call my cell and [at least] leave a message so I can get back to them in the rare occasion that I still do not answer. They all know my feelings about spam in general including phone spam so they all understand and comply.

These three very SIMPLE, lawful solutions to the phone spam problem [here in the States] are what keep me down to …MAYBE…

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