Adrian C wrote:
Eusebius wrote:

What to do about this - ideas?

There's a device developed to help.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7682111.stm
or http://www.truecall.co.uk

I recall Peter Strangman (RIP) had a setup on ISDN which took advantage of
the CLI signal coming through (a split second) before the call proper is put
through. If the number was blacklisted (perhaps even not-whitelisted) then
the computer took the line "off hook" and the caller would always get the
busy tone. I'm surprised it's taken such a long time for a commercial
product to come about, and moreso that it seems less sophisticated than what
Peter was doing 15 years ago.
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Selah