Just had a telemarketing call. They had the right number, but the wrong name and address. Considering we've been here for a couple of years, they must be working from really old call lists
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And the best bit would be that the filterboxes would all be tied into a free-call number hooked to a central filter system, so all filterboxes would act pretty much as one giant filter for the country, updating and synchronising their filter lists as new telemarketing numbers got through and people pressed the big red "Filter!" button on their phones. More than a certain number of tagged calls from the same number would spill it over into the public filter list until no more tagged calls from that number had been registered for a certain amount of time.
I also forsee a market for a US cellphone version of the filter, as apparently over there they pay to receive calls, not make them. Thus telemarketing costs the call receiver both time and money
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and i just had a nasty thought - use ELISA and some decent voice software, and the tele-spammers won't know the difference!
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And the best bit would be that the filterboxes would all be tied into a free-call number hooked to a central filter system, so all filterboxes would act pretty much as one giant filter for the country, updating and synchronising their filter lists as new telemarketing numbers got through and people pressed the big red "Filter!" button on their phones. More than a certain number of tagged calls from the same number would spill it over into the public filter list until no more tagged calls from that number had been registered for a certain amount of time.
I also forsee a market for a US cellphone version of the filter, as apparently over there they pay to receive calls, not make them. Thus telemarketing costs the call receiver both time and money ( ... )
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