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My *outrageously clever* way of avoiding phone spam and other unwanted calls 
has been killing my BellSouth service altogether and just having a cell 
phone. It's a lot cheaper, it has caller-ID and voice mail, and the number 
isn't in the phone book. I don't get spam phone calls anymore. And I just 
look at the phone ID screen when it rings and decide whether or not I deem 
the caller worthy of my precious, precious time. 

I don't have a phone line for my computer at the moment, though, and that's 
gotta change soon. Does BellSouth have a deal where you can get a line that 
is solely for data use? I've been looking around their (useless) Web site and 
can't find anything about it. 

Beth

Joey Carr <joey AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

>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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