Attempting a "reply" from one echo to a new echo with Slypheed. Hope this works.

On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 07:50:00 -0800
Kurt Weiske <0@700.218.1> wrote:

When I was a telecom manager, I bought a new bank of DID numbers for my
company. I assigned the lead number of the bank of numbers to the phone
in my switch room, and as soon as I saved the change, it rang.

That's so wrong. Sounds like the phone company pre-sold the information about the numbers to spammers.

I picked it up, and it was a wrong number for a museum. Thinking about
it, It seemed likely that a museum patron would have an old number
written down somewhere instead of looking it up. :)

So.. how long did that carry on? Did you get a fresh group of DID numbers?

I'm getting SPAM calls from "Google Voice Verification". They keep
asking for the "business owner". Not sure what they want to charge for,
but when I ask them to take me off of their list, they double down with
what great value they offer - or once, told me it wasn't his job to
take me off of their list and I "need a secretary".

The whole thing sounds bogus. A caller with a sincere intention would not start taking a defensive attitude like that. Can't you just block those incoming calls?

I've got around 60 calls logged, am considering taking them to court.

Maybe you would be attempting to take a bogus "google" caller who resides outside your jurisdiction and therefore "taking them to court" would fail. No?

I get a myriad of repeat calls from Point-Of-Sale device companies. I tell them all to never call me again, eventually they call again anyway. I save the number in my contacts with a suitable label like "SpamYYMMDD-type" where YYMMDD is the date of the first call, and "type" is POS, or CREDIT, or SURVEY, etc. So.. when I see "Spam....", I know it's a repeat spammer and I don't answer. They never leave a message. That system seems to be working ok.

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Hi August,

On 2024-01-07 02:59:14, you wrote to Kurt Weiske:

Attempting a "reply" from one echo to a new echo with Slypheed. Hope
this works.

If it is supposed to end up in the CHAT echo, it worked! ;-)

On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 07:50:00 -0800
Kurt Weiske <0@700.218.1> wrote:

^^^^^^^^^^^
That is curious!?


Bye, Wilfred.

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From: Wilfred van Velzen <0@464.280.2>
To: August Abolins
Newsgroups: chat

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On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 07:50:00 -0800
Kurt Weiske <0@700.218.1> wrote:

^^^^^^^^^^^
That is curious!?

Is it? :-D

That's the way how jam/smapinntpd shows the address as "email" format. Some clients (like newer Thunderbirds) fail to show the fidonet address in <2:280/464.0> format.

'Tommi

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Hello Kurt!

..Can't you just block
those incoming calls?

No, part of the problem with VOIP is it's easy to change
your CPNI. The calls come from different numbers each
time. They just show up as the city (usually near me) and
a number.

My cellular service doesn't faciliate blocking specific numbers
either, but I label the suspect like so:

https://kolico.ca/tmp/sss-spam_20240107.png

That's a screenshot from my BlackBerry Q10.

There are a total of about 65.
I started just numbering them like SPAM1, SPAM2, SPAM3.. but
stopped doing that at SPAM23. Then I started labelling them
with what they are: "pos", "google" "fakebank", etc..

I haven't been getting any new ones for about a month. Maybe
they are basking on warm beaches with their ill-gotten gains.

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August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

The whole thing sounds bogus. A caller with a sincere intention would
not start taking a defensive attitude like that. Can't you just block those incoming calls?

No, part of the problem with VOIP is it's easy to change your CPNI. The
calls come from different numbers each time. They just show up as the
city (usually near me) and a number.




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