[Novalug] VA anti-SPAM law struck down

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Dan Arico wrote:

> On Thursday 18 September 2008 01:43:49 pm Beartooth wrote:
>
>>  	Twenty years in Northern Virginia made us so allergic to 
>> spam of all kinds, and especially phone spam, that we refuse 
>> to touch voice mail -- even to the point of never finding out 
>> how to get into it. When we learned that the nasty noises 
>> every time we picked up the phone were an indication we had 
>> voice mail, we got it removed from the account.
>
> Get one of these. It dropped telemarketing calls to my home 
> phone to zero as soon as I plugged it in.
>
> http://www.familysafemedia.com/screen_machine_telemarketer_ca.html

 	We got a "Phone Zapper" or some such thing, from 
RatShack when there was talk of them here. It helped for a while; 
but the ports on the back aren't labelled -- so I may have them 
reversed.

 	It was supposed to recognize machine calls, and send back 
the signal that the phone company does to indicate "not in 
service."

-- 
Beartooth of Bear's End, Squirreler, Historian of Tongues
What do they know of country, who only country know?