[plug] [OT| growing VOIP -> POTS spam problem

[Shayne O'Neill]

I wonder if they are legal? Surely they wouldnt be.

*sigh*

spamassassin + voice recognition........................ nah.

--
 I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to
town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.
- Jack Handey (And now, Deep thoughts)

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Chris Caston wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 12:57, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> > > If you should be abusing the "living daylight" out of anyone it should
> > > be the people that run the cold-calling sweat shop instead of giving
> > > these people real jobs.
> >
> > I concur. However, I must confess having recently been woken up at about
> > 2am by *PRERECORDED* off-shore phone advertisement with a return number
> > that was one
> > of those 50c per minute timed call things I found myself *deeply* wishing
> > I HAD someone to abuse.
> >
>
> Yes the most annoying thing about those is that just hanging up doesn't
> get rid of them. The call does not end until the other end hangs up so
> in the meantime you can't use your line.
>
> This is a really bad DoS attack against someones (or a businesses) phone
> line.
>
> regards,
>
> Chris
>
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