[conspire] (forw) [GoLugTech] Terrible customer

[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Wed, May 04, 2016 at 02:57:49PM -0700:
> Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):
> 
> > Here is a totally different strategy for robocalls, which I learned from Consumer Reports.  
> > 
> > Use https://www.nomorobo.com/
> 
> [...]
> > It costs nothing.
> 
> Except autonomy and privacy.
> 
> Forwarding all incoming calls to an outsourced service means that that
> service gets all details about who calls your number and when.  Your are
> also outsourcing the decision about what calls to send back to your
> system.  I think this is an appalling idea.

When peak robocalling season starts, I'm going to
plug the house phone line into the printer (which
has a rarely used fax feature) at dinnertime.  If it
gets into the right databases as a fax line that
could help.

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Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org>                   
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