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   Hello Richard!   
      
   ** 09.04.20 - 19:20, Richard Menedetter wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    AA>> Maybe start to annoy THEM?   
      
    RM>Nope :)   
      
   "Annoy" them back is truly the best approach.  This guy is hilarious:   
      
      "Telephone spam_scam problem_ Bring in the robots. _ Roger Anderson _     
   TEDxNaperville"   
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXVJ4JQ3SUw   
      
   Too funny!   
      
   The phone service he mentions at the end sounds like fun to give a try.   
      
   I had an uncle who tackled these things with humour and style. "Thank you     
   for calling. I don't get out very much. Do you get out much?  I'd love to     
   tell you about my aunt in the old country..."  ..and he would just keep     
   talking or tell a story.   
      
   I do something similar, but instead of talking, I just tell them I need to     
   check the door.. or that I have a call coming in on the other line.. and I     
   place the caller on hold.  There are long periods when the phone is     
   wonderfully free of telemarketers.  But when they reoccur, a polite     
   "Please hold" routine seems to start reducing them again.   
      
      
    AA>> That one sounds very familiar.  Good to know that there are solutions   
    AA>> that  ISPs can implement. But whatever is being done, is not good   
    AA>> enough.   
      
    RM>Change your mail provider :)   
      
   Most of them seem to get "caught" and moved to the Junk folder on the ISP     
   webmail side.  With basic pop/smtp I don't get bothered by the Junk folder     
   contents.  But when I occassionally require to use the webmail login,     
   there is a great satisfaction to delete the Junk folder in bulk.   
      
      
     ../|ug   
      
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