AI6YR BenRing.... ring.... ring... ring... #phone
Anne Ominousi just realized that there are prolly many adults out there who have never heard a phone like this ringing
@rustoleumlove Here's the phone ringing! (rings better now, I actually went in and cleaned all the contacts since)
Ring.... Ring.... Ring...
Lenora@ai6yr @rustoleumlove my parents owned a phone like that
@rustoleumlove @ai6yr I owned a phone that had a rotary dial but it was a slim phone
Led By Gilded Fools@FaithinBones @rustoleumlove @ai6yr Did you know that you could permanently stop spam callers, if you kept a ready copy of the "Disconnect" tone+message ready to be played by your phone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNb47yeNrCo
Telemarketers will mark your number as "disconnected"
Just try not to giggle while you are playing it.
We're sorry. You have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. SIT
do you know how i've stopped spam callers?
i rarely if ever make or receive phone calls.
i dont know exactly how that has translated into hardly ever getting spam calls, but it has. i go whole months without getting one, and maybe i'll get like three that my phone automatically rejects in one day, then i go back to rarely getting them
kajer :notverified:@rustoleumlove @MHowell @ai6yr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleZapper
this was a thing sold "back then"
bjb 
@MHowell @ai6yr @rustoleumlove
I guess it reduced the spam for me. I cut out all the remaining spam calls on that line when I cancelled the voice line entirely : -) First I had my ISP convert the ISP account to "dry loop", othrrwise I would have had to suffer a week of no internet between "cancel phone line" and "reinstate isp service over the land line".
Wandering Hermit@MHowell @FaithinBones @rustoleumlove @ai6yr
I knew a guy who used this as his announcement for voice mail. Friends knew to wait it out and leave a message.
David Whittemore