[ARC5] Spammers...

[Scott Robinson]

HI Leslie,

the USA has that, too, and I signed up first day it was available. 
Trouble is, that tow categories of callers are excluded:

1) non-profits and charities;

2) companies with which you have previously done business.

I get very few commercial calls, but an appalling number of charities 
call, generally using dialing machines. As soon as I recognize that it's 
a machine, I hang up.

Regards,

Scott

On 4/10/15 2:43 PM, Leslie Smith wrote:
>    In Australia we have a register that allows a household to list their
>    phone on a 'do not call' register.
>    The problem is that the register must be re-done every three years.
>
>    73 de Les Smith
>    vk2bcu at operamail.com
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015, at 04:23, Scott Robinson wrote:
>> Agreed about the telephone calls; I get about 6 a day, and everyone
>> interrupts what I'm doing, even if it's only napping.
>>
>> Grumble.
>>
>> /scott
>>
>> On 4/10/15 10:26 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>>> On 10 Apr 2015 at 10:16, Scott Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Last I knew, most of the spam you get came from one of 10 companies in
>>>> the good ol' USA. Remedies for this occurred to me...
>>>>
>>>> /scott
>>>
>>> Well, you are not alone. I remember reading several years ago that someone
>>> in New York discovered the identity of a notorious spammer and killed him.
>>>
>>> Also, there is a very well known spammer in Texas who has made a lot of
>>> money off spamming. He is a youngish fellow, who refuses to give interviews
>>> to the media...with good reason. He drives some fancy foreign very
>>> expensive car.
>>>
>>> My pet peeve at this point are all the cursed spamming telephone calls. We
>>> get several a day.
>>>
>>> When I was still working, chasing viruses, etc., we discovered that, at that
>>> time, the majority of really serious viruses were coming from two sources: 1)
>>> the Bulgarian version of the KGB, and 2) Israel.
>>>
>>> Look up Stuxnet virus sometime. Very interesting reading, I assure you.
>>>
>>> Ken W7EKB
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