[Info-vax] OT: if you had tens of thousands of phone numbers...

[John Wallace]

On Aug 4, 11:21 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> > Richard B. Gilbert <rgilber... at comcast.net> wrote:
> > (snip)
>
> >> I don't know if everyone feels this way but I don't consider E-mail from
> >> a firm that I do business with to be "spam".  In general, any mail from
> >> these firms come with an addendum telling me how to unsubscribe.
>
> > I suppose it would depend on the specific e-mail.
>
> > I do know that the telephone "do not call" list specifically
> > excludes companies that you have done business with, along with
> > charitable and political organizations.
>
> I'm not complaining about companies I do business with.  They have
> little reason to call me and generally don't.
>
> Most of the phone spammers don't seem to be aware of the "Do not call
> list"!  I've been on the list for several years now and I still get
> phone spam.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have the equipment to record phone calls legally.
>   If I did, I could get proof that these jerks are ignoring the "Do not
> call list" and prosecute!  About the best I can do is avoid doing
> business with them in any way, shape, or form!

One of the UK's smaller and more creative/competent ISPs is having
public fun with telemarketers at the moment; they've recently started
also offering telephony services and have a *lot* of "spare" numbers
which the telemarketers' random autodiallers will inevitably hit from
time to time. You can find some of the story at http://revk.www.me.uk
(sic), which is the personal blog of the man in charge at AAISP.
There's other stuff there too which may or may not appeal. You may
need to go back a month or so.

One of this ISP's other pages is at http://sod.ms which may appeal to
some round here.

Some idiot telemarketer's autodialler got its voice response system
engaged in conversation with my home answering machine the other day,
which in principle was amusing. Unfortunately it was one machine
talking to another, no human's time was being wasted.