[ARC5] Spammers...

[Glen Zook via ARC5]

You forgot one of the most bothersome of classes of callers that still can call:  Politicians!
Candidates for public office can call as many times as they want to as well as representatives from political parties, etc.  At least around here, Texas, there are numerous elections including state, county, school district, city, as well as national elections.  That means candidates calling, usually with recorded calls all day long.  Of course, one gets a goodly number of calls from certain candidates.
What is especially troublesome is that, in my case, the city is divided between 2-counties, 2-U.S. House of Representatives, 4-different state representatives, 2-different state senators, and so forth.  Unfortunately, the various zip codes in the city are also in both counties.  As such, we often get calls from politicians for whom we could not even think of voting for because their systems go either by the name of the city or the zip code. Glen, K9STH

Website: http://k9sth.net
      From: Scott Robinson <spr at earthlink.net>
 To: Leslie Smith <vk2bcu at operamail.com>; ARC-5 List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
 Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 5:17 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] Spammers...
   
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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