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20th Mar 2013martyn1949 commented on:
Are you plagued by nuisance calls and what is your strategy for dealing with them?Silverhairs said Are you plagued by nuisance calls and what is your strategy for dealing with them? Are you civil or short with them. Have you tried to sign up to get them stopped or become ex-directory?
As an electronics engineer who is often plagued by nuisance calls despite being on the Telephone Preference Service, I have an idea. I propose a small filter box that sits under the phone. It has an answer phone built in. When you plug it in, it has no memories, but as calls come in, you press a Bar Call button any time during the call if you don;t want to hear from that caller again. When the phone rings, the box recognises the incoming number and remembers if it is on the Barred list. If it is, it just gets diverted to the answer phone - and your phone does not actually ring at all! If the number is NOT on the Barred list, the phone rings, and you answer it. Yes, you have to pay for Caller ID, but this is cheap. Good idea? Shall I get designing?