[Novalug] NoMoRobo - I'm in doghouse

jerry w jerrywone@gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 11:19:45 EST 2014


Sirsi harass robodialers


On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, Dave Aronson <tux.2.TRex@codosaur.us> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Roy Wilson <roywilson1963@gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> >   I sometimes miss the old dialup BBS days.  When I got a telemarketer
> > back then, I'd just click an icon (OS/2) and they would get to hear the
> > lovely voice of a modem singing to them....  :)
>
> And there were spammers un-savvy enough to include a toll-free
> number... which, as a Fidonet BBS sysop, I added to my copy of the
> nodelist (the Fidonet "phone book") and sent a netmail (a Fidonet
> email) to.  It would therefore dial it every once in a while, fail to
> find a modem on the other end, and hang up.
>
> -Dave
>
> --
> Dave Aronson, the T. Rex of Codosaurus LLC (codosaur.us),
> freelance software developer, and creator of these sites:
> PullRequestRoulette.com, blog.codosaur.us, & Dare2XL.com.
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Jerry W
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