I'm one of the last holdouts who keeps a landline. (Really, landline-like service; it comes over FiOS, they wouldn't let us keep the POTS once we signed up for FiOS.) The strange thing is, for the past year and a half or so, the scam calls to the landline have really fallen off. There used to be several a day---annoying but Caller ID was the real counter-measure. That scammers are allowed to spoof caller ID is yet another scandal. But now, there are hardly any. We do get political polls, which I will pick up for, because I'd like my opinions to count for more.
If my interpretation of the wiring setup is correct, the family from whom we bought the house had at one point three land lines. That must have been quite the indulgence back in the '80s.
Interesting to read your explanation of why the DNC Registry failed so quickly.
I guess I signed up to registry just shortly after that early, short-lived period when it actually had been effective. When it didn't work for me, when the spam calls continued, I just shrugged it off as, "Eh, these regulations never work....but is there at least a better spam filter?" Not being a tech person, I hadn't quite grasped that I was hoping for spam filters from the very producers of the spam!...
I'm one of the last holdouts who keeps a landline. (Really, landline-like service; it comes over FiOS, they wouldn't let us keep the POTS once we signed up for FiOS.) The strange thing is, for the past year and a half or so, the scam calls to the landline have really fallen off. There used to be several a day---annoying but Caller ID was the real counter-measure. That scammers are allowed to spoof caller ID is yet another scandal. But now, there are hardly any. We do get political polls, which I will pick up for, because I'd like my opinions to count for more.
If my interpretation of the wiring setup is correct, the family from whom we bought the house had at one point three land lines. That must have been quite the indulgence back in the '80s.
Interesting to read your explanation of why the DNC Registry failed so quickly.
I guess I signed up to registry just shortly after that early, short-lived period when it actually had been effective. When it didn't work for me, when the spam calls continued, I just shrugged it off as, "Eh, these regulations never work....but is there at least a better spam filter?" Not being a tech person, I hadn't quite grasped that I was hoping for spam filters from the very producers of the spam!...