OT-Junk Mail

[w7aqk]

Hi All,

In this day and age it is almost impossible to keep your lines of
communication "pure"!  By that, I mean absent of any junk mail, anonymous
callers, etc.  For eons my mail box has been a repository for all sorts of
unsolicited junk.  Now my email addresses are being overrun as well, and
even my phone keeps ringing with calls for all sorts of unwelcome sources.
It's just about out of control!!!!

Well, I couldn't help saying some thing here because now I am getting emails
from an outfit that identifies itself as "Elycraft"!!!  Fortunately, my spam
filter seems to catch most of it, and separate it, but some of it sneaks
directly into my regular mail.  Is anyone else getting some of this from
that source?

The hardest to ignore are the phone calls.  And, there are a bunch of
them!!!  They are also getting clever by usurping local numbers and area
codes to make it look like they are not what they really are--trash vendors!
Getting rid of them is also impossible.  If you block one, they just switch
to a different number!!

I think this is a crisis!  Anyone else agree?

Dave W7AQK


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[rich hurd WC3T]

Bear with me, this is long but it works.

My solution was to get a Google Voice phone number and associate it with my
“real” phone number.  It keeps a record of whoever calls and as a rule I
don’t answer unless I know the number - a phone screen. If they leave a
voicemail that indicates a telemarketer, I add them to my Google Contacts
list as an alternate number for the entry entitled “Telemarketer.”  I give
my GV number to pretty much everybody now.  Only trusted friends get the
“real” phone number.

Now in my Google Contacts I have a group - an administrative tagging -
called “Silent.” No magic in the name, you can call it anything you want.

I have instructed Google Voice to NOT ring the phone for any caller in the
“Silent” group, but to send them to voicemail directly.  Kind of a call
forward.  And, as you can guess, “Telemarketer” is a member of the Silent
group.

As a result, all I get is an email notification that I have a missed call
from such-and-such number.   When I spin through my emails, it’s easy to
delete them.

(It’s also handy to add annoying relatives to the Silent group so you see
that they called, and can respond at your convenience and not theirs.  :) )

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 10:33 w7aqk <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In this day and age it is almost impossible to keep your lines of
> communication "pure"!  By that, I mean absent of any junk mail, anonymous
> callers, etc.  For eons my mail box has been a repository for all sorts of
> unsolicited junk.  Now my email addresses are being overrun as well, and
> even my phone keeps ringing with calls for all sorts of unwelcome sources.
> It's just about out of control!!!!
>
> Well, I couldn't help saying some thing here because now I am getting
> emails
> from an outfit that identifies itself as "Elycraft"!!!  Fortunately, my
> spam
> filter seems to catch most of it, and separate it, but some of it sneaks
> directly into my regular mail.  Is anyone else getting some of this from
> that source?
>
> The hardest to ignore are the phone calls.  And, there are a bunch of
> them!!!  They are also getting clever by usurping local numbers and area
> codes to make it look like they are not what they really are--trash
> vendors!
> Getting rid of them is also impossible.  If you block one, they just
> switch
> to a different number!!
>
> I think this is a crisis!  Anyone else agree?
>
> Dave W7AQK
>
>
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