Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-17 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
your rite --R On 2/17/15 10:24 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: You should have given her a brake. Otherwise you would loose her to someone else. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 17, 2015, at 10:13 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote: Some years ago my little group was interviewing people

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-17 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
You should have given her a brake. Otherwise you would loose her to someone else. Dan Sent from my iPad > On Feb 17, 2015, at 10:13 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes > wrote: > > Some years ago my little group was interviewing people for a secretarial job. > We had a resume from a young woman w

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-17 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Some years ago my little group was interviewing people for a secretarial job. We had a resume from a young woman who asserted that she was a cosmologist, having studied make-up and hair care at some local school. We did actually interview her, I think my buddy and I just wanted some grins. T

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-17 Thread Tim Crone via Mercedes
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Long time ago I had an answering machine that could be set to start with the > three tones used to signal the phone service had been disconnected. Very > effective at stopping the unwanted calls. Real humans would listen past th

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
However, that wastes your time as well. Just hang up on them. On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Curt wrote: > > The best way I've found is to waste a bunch of their time... > > > > Hear. > Hear. > I like to string them along with question

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Curt wrote: The best way I've found is to waste a bunch of their time... Hear. Hear. I like to string them along with questions and then wrong name and address. Lately the calls are not robo, but annoying since they are from some national 'school' network. Come to find out the teach cosmeto

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Curt wrote: > The best way I've found is to waste a bunch of their time... > Hear. Hear. I like to string them along with questions and then wrong name and address. Lately the calls are not robo, but annoying since they are from some national 'school' network. Come to find out the teach cosmetol

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Long time ago I had an answering machine that could be set to start with the three tones used to signal the phone service had been disconnected. Very effective at stopping the unwanted calls. Real humans would listen past the tone, then either leave a message or try again later. -- Max Dillon

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
You need something Like this: Www.plugnblock.com I used to have a little black box that went inline with the POTS line that would pause the off hook signal or something to that effect. It disrupted recorded calls somehow by doing this. I just look at the caller ID and if I don't recognize it I

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
; > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls > > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > > > > The best way I've found is to waste a bunch of their time, it doesn't > stop them but seems to slow them down some. As others have said acting > cluel

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
If they are recorded messages just ignore them if the caller ID shows no info or some random number from somewhere. If the answering machine gets it they stop. If it is a person, like "Technical Services" calling about your windows computer just start shouting allahuwa akbar, asking if they a

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread Fred Moir via Mercedes
Curt.I'd thought of replying in Cockney rhyming slang or Scouse or some such. Too much trouble for so little reward. Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. > Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:15:50 + > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls > From: mercedes@okie

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 12:09 PM > Subject: [MBZ] OT Robocalls > > Alles.Is there some kind of electronic raspberry that one could squirt > down the phone to stop robocalls?The do-not-call-list being more than > useless, annoying too. > > Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel prefer

Re: [MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
ou're such a great guy... -Curt From: Fred Moir via Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion List Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 12:09 PM Subject: [MBZ] OT Robocalls Alles.Is there some kind of electronic raspberry that one could squirt down the phone to stop robocalls?The do-not-

[MBZ] OT Robocalls

2015-02-16 Thread Fred Moir via Mercedes
Alles.Is there some kind of electronic raspberry that one could squirt down the phone to stop robocalls?The do-not-call-list being more than useless, annoying too. Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. ___ http://www.okiebe