Re: OT: abusive calls penalty

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:05:09 GMT, James Arthur
<bogusabdsqy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

I just answer every computer-generated question with "***-head" ;-)

In your case you could probably get the phone company to change your
number, for free.

...Jim Thompson
Changing phone numbers, having unlisted number, do-not-call list; absolutely none of that, and no combination works.
I once dreamed about making a gadget that would pick up the
phone and challenge the caller: "Hey, if you're a human,
hit the <random #> key now," then ring 'em through.

Instead I answer and if there's the slightest delay from
them--meaning it's a machine waiting to detect my voice--
I just hang up.

For a while I used another trick... you can record the three
tones from the out-of service message [1] as the out-going message
on your answering machine.

When the auto-dialer dials up it interprets the tones and marks
yours as a dead number, not to be called again. Works great,
but confuses the innocent, human callers.

Cheers,
James Arthur
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[1] "<beep1 beep2 beep3> We're sorry, but the number you have dialed is not in service." Sequence: <913.8 Hz tone> <1,370.6 Hz> <1776.7 Hz>, about 380mS each.

My son has that tone sequence automatically occurring.

What I'm contemplating is a box which blanks the first ring, reads the
caller ID, if it's 800.., 866, or whatever, or a number on my
black-list, it answers then hangs up... so I'm not disturbed at all.

Since this procedure loses the caller-ID for desired calls... I allow
"good" calls to ring through on the second ring, but the caller-ID
isn't repeated... I'm looking for a way to store CID and insert it
after the second ring.

Any ideas?

...Jim Thompson
Use a PIC ? :-)

Cheers,
James Arthur
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