RE: [misterhouse-users] Telezapper Style functionality in Misterhouse

[Stephen W. <se...@al...>]

Huh, a little money-making scheme for someone.  We up here in PA have
just had the same thing implemented, but (so far) it doesn't cost us a
thing, just sign up and away they go.  I've seen similar nation-wide
lists available for subscription on the Internet at those prices too,
but since we have a free one, I didn't bother subscribing.

By combining the no-call list and my SIT generator, our number of tele-
marketing calls has for all intents and purposes been eliminated.  We've
gone from probably 2-3 a day, down to maybe 1 a month.  Nothing like a
quiet dinner home. <smile>

>-----Original Message-----
>From: mis...@li...
>[mailto:mis...@li...]On Behalf Of Gary
>Sanders
>Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:51 PM
>To: mis...@li...
>Subject: Re: [misterhouse-users] Telezapper Style functionality in
>Misterhouse
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>Jeff Siddall wrote:
>>
>> I hated getting telemarketer calls, so I wrote a fairly complex IVR
>> system in Perl.  It has telemarketer and known caller databases to
>> determine how to handle the call.  If it can't decide from the CID info,
>> it can screen the caller by asking them to identify themselves, then
>> playing their response over the in-house speakers.  I have complete
>> control over who I talk to now.
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>I know that a technical solution is a lot more fun, and the following is
>just not the way we do things :) , but it works for me.....
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>Here in Florida the state department of Consumer Affairs maintains a
>No-Call list that all telemarketers have to purchase in order to do
>business in the state (even out of state telemarketers calling into
>Florida). It costs the consumer $10 to be put on the list the first
>year, then 5 bucks a year to renew. We signed up 2 or 3 years ago, and
>it works amazingly well (except for the political hacks, newspaper
>subscription and charity calls, which are exempt) Isn't it amazing that
>the politicians would exempt themselves? :) Repeat violations of the
>no-call regulation is Extremely expensive, and many have been prosecuted.
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>Like I said, not as much fun as a technical solution, but it does work,
>and many other states have similar lists.
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>Gary Sanders
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