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Re: [OM] OT: Telephone Spying Again

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Telephone Spying Again
From: Larry Griffin via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 17:42:47 -0800
Cc: Larry Griffin <l_g_griffin@xxxxxxxxx>
There is another robocall blocker called youmail. There is a free version and of course premium versions. You mail blocks all calls not in your phone list they go straight to your voice mail. Depending on which plan you have you then can have the voice mail emailed to you or,,,,,, I've had it on my second phone which doesn't get any robo calls now unfortunately that's about all I can say about it. The premium version is $5 a month. another choice.


On 12/29/2016 05:25 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
      Thank you.  I will definitely look into that at the first opportunity.


   I installed a free product about 2 years ago to solve my telemarketer
problem.  It is Free (for a landline).  I requires that you be
affiliated with supported telephone providers.

    I subscribe to Verizon, which it supports.  I seems to eliminate
about +95% of unwanted calls.  The real test was that I received NO
political calls.  You set up your account to call-forwarding to their
phone number where it is compared to their database and if there is no
match then it is returned back to your phone.  It works and it is free.
If it supports your system, then you are in luck.

https://www.nomorobo.com/

Rand E


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On 12/29/2016 7:01 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
       My odd problem with telemarketers calling immediately after making a 
loud noise hasn't happened much, until these past few days.  Early this 
afternoon I came home after a long drive.  I closed the front door firmly, and 
in less than a minute the phone rang with a telemarketer on the other end.

       Earlier this year I looked extensively online for any information about this, and I learned that 
many of our electronic phones, such as cordless, leave the microphone alive when the phone is not in 
use, what's known as "live mike" or "hot mike".  I'm not certain if this is true 
for all such phones, but it appears to be true for my AT&T cordless phone set.

       I'll have to look into my older textbooks on telephony and see how our 
mechanical telephones disconnected the earpiece and microphone when the handset 
is in the cradle.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
       - Hunter S. Thompson
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Chris

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