<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 1:39 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Wow... such a huge difference between the US and Sweden. I imagine that <br>
people would move to using white lists only with that being so common.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Some people try. Unfortunately, due to how the phone systems in North America work (including needing to coordinate with Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean states: it's the North American Numbering Plan), caller ID spoofing is a routine thing for telemarketers, trying to appear as phone numbers they suspect are on the approved lists. To fix this would require a level of law enforcement that would be possible in the US and Canada, but has proven infeasible in several of the other nations. (And then there's political influence from the marketing associations, but I understand the law enforcement angle is a less immediately solvable component.)</div></div></div>