I have heard of people doing the following: they get "select a ring"
or "smart ring" or whatever their phone company is calling it this
month. Any directory listing for the person will be for the "primary"
phone number at that location. They put a fax machine on that number,
and only pick up for the secondary number.
Of course, I disconnected my fax machine a couple of years ago (who
sends faxes when Email is cheaper, faster, and easier?). I still get
a few faxes every morning.
We used to have the phone listed in my wife's unpronouncable maiden
name (no extra charge to have the phone listed in any name you want,
though there is a one-time charge [about $15] to change the listing).
We ended that 5 years ago. Just yesterday I got a "charitable" call
from someone who fumbled the name. I asked who it was, said "I gave
at the office" or something, and hung up.
I'm now starting to get text-message spam on my cell phone. This
annoys me because my plan requires me to pay for all text messages (I
don't use the feature myself). It's not a problem YET: I get far more
wrong numbers than text messages.
At 12:58 PM 2/19/2008, MrMike6by9 wrote:
Some thoughts. I found that one of the best solutions for dealing with
unsolicited phone traffic is an answering machine with caller-id or a
speaker. They rarely bother if the machine picks up first. If I hear a
familiar voice say my name, I can pick-up or return the call. My caller-id
shows that there are a LOT of 800 numbers calling during the day. You can
often check them out with "800notes.com" and with "whocalled.us". I'm sure
there are others. The "doing business" bit with the do not call registry is
within the last 6 months, IIRC. You usually have to UNcheck the box that
permits third party businesses from contacting you, phone or email. I now
have Comcast digital voice and can block 12 numbers at a time. I keep an
Excel sheet of numbers and dates they call. If one shows more than once or
twice, it gets blocked. Groceries rotate their stock, I rotate 800 numbers
on my blocked callers list.
YMMV
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