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On 24/06/2019 04.05, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Quoting David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com>: [snip]
The scumbags phoning home have an interest in obscuring the data and until the data exposes some embarrassing facts for some politician costing them an election, I doubt there will be any real push to curtail the problem. (for God sakes, in the US, they are just now trying to tackle the robo-calls that have rendered land-line telephone service more of an annoyance than a useful service)
Robo-calls are not limited to land-lines. They outnumber personal calls by at least 2 to 1. If I or my phone don't recognize the number, I don't answer.
I use Ziya, it identifies unknown callers with their own database. If several people denounce a number, it is automatically blocked. Depending on the terminal, it rings once or none. Google is also starting to do something like that, but with less features. It works so well, that I have set an unconditional route to a mobile with Android and Hiya to act as filter. [...] At last! The phone company guy has arrived and replaced the dead ONT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_interface_device#Optical_network_termi...). No phone, no TV, no fibre internet since Friday afternoon. The worst was trying to tell the robot at the customer client what the problem was. Daft robot. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.0 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))