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Skriven 2008-09-15 07:23:45 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 20811 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: FidoNews 25:36 [02/04]: General Articles
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15 Sep 08 01:12, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:

 MvdV>>> The telemarketeers are a pest, but there are ways to defend
 MvdV>>> against them and not having a telephone is not really an option.

 RW>> In the US, there is a National Do-Not-Call List which is easy to
 RW>> sign on to. The number you list is blocked from telemarketers for
 RW>> ever.

 MvdV> We have something similar here, but it is not 100% effective. For
 MvdV> one, it does not stop calls originating from abroad. I get a call
 MvdV> from the US now and then.

Hmmm. That may mean that in the future, we could be getting calls from
outside the country too. The NoCall list isn't enforcable internationally.

 RW>> I have a land line and have no telemarketing traffic on it. Cell
 RW>> phone providers do not publish cell phone numbers and telemarketing
 RW>> calls are very rare on those.

 MvdV> Telemarketing calls on cellphones are rare here as well but for a
 MvdV> different reason. Unlisted numbers are not spared. Some
 MvdV> telemarketeers randomly call numbers. Fixed line numbers.

 MvdV> Over here the added expense of calling a cell phone is entirely on
 MvdV> the caller. Cell phones have numbers in a distinctive block and
 MvdV> telemarketeers do not call them because of the added expense.

 MvdV> Yet...

I have three cell phones that I carry daily. Two of them, on seperate
carriers, T-Mobile and AT&T, don't get any calls they're not supposed to
get (registered on the NoCall list). The third is on the Nextel circuit
and is a cell phone and a radio all in one.

It's programmed on a work 'talk-group' and does get a lot of spam calls
and email. I thought I registered it with the NoCall list, but maybe I
didn't. In the meantime, I've set it's ringer and email notification to
silent and no vibrate.

 MvdV>>> That is only for hermits.

 RW>> You're talking to the hermit, Bob...

 MvdV> Bob is not a hermit. I have seen his house. Inside and outside. Not
 MvdV> a hermit's hideout.

You've got your Bobs mixed up. Bob the Hermit lives in Iowa.

                R\%/itt



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