On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 3:03:54 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Hi all, I have reached the capabilities of my Panasonic cordless phones for
blocking spam. (250). I have Verizon landline (not FIOS) so Nomorobo will not
work. Questions follow:

Buy new cordless phones with greater capacity?

If so recommend a brand: Panasonic - V-tech - ?

Buy a separate call blocker? e.g. CPR V5000

If so recommend a brand:

Other comments:

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Tekkie

I have Spectrum cable and phone. The phone number of incoming calls pops up on top of my tv screen
when the phone rings. Is there something similar you could use? Is there a way to accept certain calls but send
unknowns to voice mail? Maybe forward the ones you want to a cheap cell phone?

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 08:33:01 -0700 (PDT), Dean Hoffman posted for all of us to
digest...


On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 3:03:54 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Hi all, I have reached the capabilities of my Panasonic cordless phones for
blocking spam. (250). I have Verizon landline (not FIOS) so Nomorobo will not
work. Questions follow:

Buy new cordless phones with greater capacity?

If so recommend a brand: Panasonic - V-tech - ?

Buy a separate call blocker? e.g. CPR V5000

If so recommend a brand:

Other comments:

--
Tekkie

I have Spectrum cable and phone. The phone number of incoming calls pops up on top of my tv screen
when the phone rings. Is there something similar you could use? Is there a way to accept certain calls but send
unknowns to voice mail? Maybe forward the ones you want to a cheap cell phone?

I had Comcast voice for awhile, didn't really like it. That acts similar to
what you posted. Forwarding will only confuse my wife...

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Tekkie

On 4/13/21 3:03 PM, Tekkie� wrote:

Hi all, I have reached the capabilities of my Panasonic cordless phones for
blocking spam. (250). I have Verizon landline (not FIOS) so Nomorobo will not
work. Questions follow:

Buy new cordless phones with greater capacity?

If so recommend a brand: Panasonic - V-tech - ?

Buy a separate call blocker? e.g. CPR V5000

If so recommend a brand:

Other comments:
Mine filled up and I had to erase it and start over (although I could
add a few recent numbers from CID memory). It would have been nice if it
automatically deleted least-recently-used entries rather than failing.

They use so many different numbers now that blocking by number isn't
very useful. Since most of these junk calls are identified by "city st"
(for example "OGDEN UT" or "SPRING TX") as the caller ID NAME, so a lot
could be blocked by using pattern matching on NAME. Patterns like "*
UT". However, I have never seen any device that would do that (it would
be very useful).

I finally settled for a whitelist device which will intercept calls if
the caller's number isn't on a list you enter.

https://www.amazon.com/Tel-Sentry-Automatic-Blocking-Election-without/dp/B00U1PPWDO/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=sentry+2.0&qid=161841 9389&s=electronics&sr=1-4
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The beating of humanity's heart cannot be felt by placing the finger on
the church's pulse." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading
And Other Essays_]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:58:06 -0500, Mark Lloyd posted for all of us to
digest...


On 4/13/21 3:03 PM, Tekkie? wrote:

Hi all, I have reached the capabilities of my Panasonic cordless phones for
blocking spam. (250). I have Verizon landline (not FIOS) so Nomorobo will not
work. Questions follow:

Buy new cordless phones with greater capacity?

If so recommend a brand: Panasonic - V-tech - ?

Buy a separate call blocker? e.g. CPR V5000

If so recommend a brand:

Other comments:
Mine filled up and I had to erase it and start over (although I could
add a few recent numbers from CID memory). It would have been nice if it
automatically deleted least-recently-used entries rather than failing.

They use so many different numbers now that blocking by number isn't
very useful. Since most of these junk calls are identified by "city st"
(for example "OGDEN UT" or "SPRING TX") as the caller ID NAME, so a lot
could be blocked by using pattern matching on NAME. Patterns like "*
UT". However, I have never seen any device that would do that (it would
be very useful).

I finally settled for a whitelist device which will intercept calls if
the caller's number isn't on a list you enter.

https://www.amazon.com/Tel-Sentry-Automatic-Blocking-Election-without/dp/B00U1PPWDO/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=sentry+2.0&qid=161841 9389&s=electronics&sr=1-4

That is what some of the devices I was looking at. Thanks

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Tekkie

On 4/14/21 4:43 PM, Tekkie� wrote:

[snip]

https://www.amazon.com/Tel-Sentry-Automatic-Blocking-Election-without/dp/B00U1PPWDO/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=sentry+2.0&qid=161841 9389&s=electronics&sr=1-4

That is what some of the devices I was looking at. Thanks

They say there is a newer version available, and that one might be
easier to use. It was not available at the time I bought one.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of
God as a supernatural being is enormous." [Julian Huxley]