My solution is very simple. I ignore all calls unless they appear on
my caller ID from my contact list. Likewise on e-mail, my spam filter
gets 99.9% of all of them and they end being sent to the junk folder.
That folder gets emptied every 12 hrs. The one or two that get through,
also get manually added to the junk filter. Thank you Thunderbird
which is my e-mail application. Once the filter is set, they are then
history forever.
73
Bob, K4TAX
On 8/14/2018 10:35 AM, Terry Schieler wrote:
I use commercial spam solutions for relief from internet email spammers. Lots
of them out there. That's all well and good. The REAL problem for me are robo
calls to my home phones and cell phone. I listed both phones on the State of
Missouri and the Federal *No Call Lists* years ago. That worked ok for a
while, then totally spiraled out of control. Spammers don't pay any attention
to the *List* and violations are not enforced.
I found a fix in an app called *NOMOROBO* No More Robo (calls). After you
sign up for the service, their server spots the fingerprints of incoming spam
telephone robo calls on your phone line. My phone rings a partial ring (.5
sec?) then the software at the server end sucks the call off my line and adds
it to their national database blacklist. The Caller Id is still displayed on
my TV screen, but before I can get my butt out of my chair, the ring stops,
telling me not to bother with the call, it's spam.
I can't remember how many years I've used NoMoRobo but I was an early adopter
and it has been working beautifully for probably 10 years now. The idea was
hatched by a couple of guys during a contest to find a solution to annoying
Robo Calls (necessary because your local telco doesn't want to help inhibit the
use of their paid services). You don't need to load your *white list* phone
numbers. There is a free version of NoMoRobo and a paid version. So far, I
have seen no need for the paid version. In all this time I only had two
callers get wrongly *captured* by the spam software and both were vendors I use
who had recently changed their phone number. Calls from my doctor's
appointment office, Trash Hauler, etc come right through.
While not affiliated with the firm that offers this (I wish I were) I recommend
looking it over and deciding for yourself if it suits your needs:
www.nomorobo.com
73, Terry WØFM
Pardon the bandwidth
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken G Kopp [mailto:kengk...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 1:58 PM
To: w7aqk
Cc: Elecraft
Subject: [Elecraft] OT-Junk Mail
Hi Dave, + rest of list
I've not seen your "Elycraft", but we … both ElecraftCovers (Rose, N7HKW) and me … get
lots of e-mail from people wanting to "fix" elecraft.com and bring us more business. I
expect Elecraft also gets these same offers.
Both of us, for several reasons, need to maintain an old-fashioned wired phone
line. We have had the same number for about fifty years and it's published and
used from all over the world.
Here's what seems to (partially) work for us; we have an answering machine in
a speaker-phone that's audible throughout the house. In addition, our satellite
TV provider is connected to the TV set … which is usually on (;-) … and the TV
screen displays caller ID info. Perhaps ten percent of the calls are legit.
Both of us have Verizon cell phones and get -many- calls from spoofed numbers … usually
in our 406 area and often using a "local" number. Rose gets many calls related
to her Elecraft case and cover business that she -must- answer. She's had three today …
with two being spoofed.
We both use G-Mail as our e-mail provider and to G-mail's credit, we get very
little SPAM. We also use Norton ... wouldn't be without it. Our internet
provider (Century Link) is via cable.
FWIW
73!
K0PP
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