Political calls and charities are immune from the Do Not Call list.

Unlikely a politician would ever vote for a solution where their SuperPAC couldn't call and bother a constituent whenever it felt like it.

Publish the home phone numbers of the people who run robocall businesses.

And just how does one get the home phone numbers of overseas owners who hide behind foreign shell companies?

And for calls that originate overseas, the subscriber gets billed for that call-forward back to the caller? That doesn't sound like a good plan.

I searched Amazon for do not call and a few things came up. The $70 Call Blocker got 4/5 stars for the 22 people that bought one. The $120 discontinued TeleBouncer had a better technical functionality, and, reportedly is still available on eBay. I might try that Call Blocker (after reading each of the reviews) or investigate running Asterisk on a Raspberry Pi.

Weaselmancer, you aren't in a balloon, by any chance...?

Kinda of like the *57 Call Trace -- where you pay $1 for the privilege of reporting the annoying phone call to the phone company. Then they thank you for the $1 and silently delete the report.

geekoid, I think you are confusing "dot" Indians with "feather" Indians.

This sounds almost like how tor works.

In the US, you can dial *57 right after receiving a harassing or threatening phone call. Do it three times, and THEN you can file a complaint with the phone company. I think they may charge $1 for each Call Trace, to prevent [anti-abuse-]abuse, so it costs the consumer $3 to even *start* to file a complaint. Of course, if there is no number, or just "OUT OF AREA", it doesn't help you identify any CID-spoofing company.

Greetings, Mr. A. Coward from Anonymous Proxy. Your first class begins on...

Pipe organs date to Medieval times.

I had dinner at Medieval Times. MORE MEAD! The busty waiting-wenches were very distracting. MY KINGDOM FOR A TURKEY LEG!

Throwing circuit boards (with gold, palladium, silver, mercury in the circuit boards) in the trash is polluting your environment and water supply. Why not take them to a recycling location, like Office Depot (office supply store in the US), and for $5-$10, they will take a huge box of tech waste electronics and send it for processing to the proper channels--instead of a landfill?

They would if they were the grammer police.

You must mean Kelsey Grammer. Surely you aren't speaking about GRAMMAR, are you?

The free website spamgourmet.com lets you set up dynamically-created email addresses, given a base address, and protects your REAL address.

Create an address on the fly, and control how many emails you receive before the address goes dead (or not). No longer care about filling out those web forms--if they sell your email address, so? After 1-20 emails it will die off (or not, your choice). Even allow only ONE specific company or domain to send to that specific address: if the original company you gave it to sells it, any other (spammer) companies' emails never get through.

For example, supplying address in format CompanyA.interview.somename@(insert one of a dozen domain aliases for spamgourmet.com here) creates the email address, and sets a default of between 1 and 20 emails to that address. Make it as easy or as sophisticated as you need.

I've given them small donations for years, as they've helped me avoid spam. Check 'em out.

Close. It's "As dumb as a post," and "Blind as a bat" (the flying kind).

What, do you Live Under a Rock?

Garrett Morris: "OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT, IT'S AS DUMB AS A POST..."