On Sun, 2023-10-08 at 10:35 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > When I retired and moved to a different town I had to get a new landline > number. It gets a constant stream of debt collector calls, so clearly the > previous person assigned the number was a deadbeat.. Here, they were finally beaten into allowing a person to keep a number when they move. Which obviously messed up the scheme of area codes. Also, when a number is taken out of service it's supposed to be held in retirement for some time. That ought to stop most of that problem. And mobile services are supposed to get all subscription pay for service numbers cancelled. They didn't do that with my mother's new number, it took a lot of argy bargy to kill off some subscription service draining her funds. > Some financial organizations insist that you use a landline with an > address they can verify. My mail goes to a PO Box -- possibly they > are more careful when you don't have a street address for mail. With the number of people on mobile phones, and only a mobile phone, they'll have to re-think that. Same with people renting, who have to keep moving because the rent goes up too much, or the landlords want to sell. And now there's the flip side of the coin, with various services insisting things must be done on-line, and not everyone is (nor wants to be). To demand that an 80 year old pensioner has to use an ill- designed phone app on a tiny screen is just stupid and offensive. > I have a network monitoring system and flood alarms that send alerts > using the landline. I'm thinking about adding a voicemail saying "This > number is used only for outgoing calls. Hang up now." when my blocklist > gets full For a long time I thought of having mine just bark "PASSWORD!" followed by a minutes silence. I just use the in-built "there is no-one available to take your call" announcement. It gives them no clues as to who's phone it is, and no recording of your voice for them to fake. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.99.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 14:19:20 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
