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[internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org (Joey Carr)]

Bell South (may it rot) does offer a service called Privacy Director that
routes anything that would not come up with a definite number on your
caller ID through an interactive menu system.  I believe it plays a
message to never call again if you're a telephone solicitor too.  After
having the service for six months and canceling it I'm still
phone-spam-free.  I think it costs about five bucks a month unless you
subscribe to some of their other marketing gimmicks. It will probably help
with the hangup, but the automated talker will probably still get through
to your voice mail.

Actual human callers who need to get through have to identify themselves
like with a collect call... and that part doesn't work too well sometimes
and it hangs up on them.

Like everything from Bell South, it's not really worth the ungodly amount
of money they charge for it... but it works, mostly.

-Joey



On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Scott Roughton wrote:

> Thank everyone for the advice. I would like to tell them to put me on the
> no call list, except
> both calls are from automated systems. One does nothing but hang up. The
> other leaves half
> of a recording. :P
> 
> >You should take the call and politely (...or not. Heh.) tell them to
> >place you on their "do not call" list. Once notified of this, you may be
> >entitled to monetary damages should they call you again.
> >
> >Once that's done, stop others from calling you:
> >http://www.dmaconsumers.org/offtelephonelist.html
> >This will eliminate 95% of all telemarketing calls. Yes, it really
> >works.
> >
> >To take care of the rest (autodialers), try this:
> >http://www.telephonetribute.com/tribute/signal_and_circuit_conditions.htm
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Mark
> >
> >On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 11:32, Scott Roughton wrote:
> >> There are two telemarketers that call my house regularly and either 
> >> leave a
> >> message or hang up. Their numbers come through caller ID. Anyone else
> >> experience this recently? Who do I contact to smack these people around 
> >> and
> >> get removed from their list?
> >
> >
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