[ExI] Communications a Moore's Law Phenomenon?

[Kelly Anderson]

I haven't had a landline for perhaps 20 years now.

-Kelly

On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 8:14 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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> On Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 1:34 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> I
>> have heard that in the US there's enormous amounts of robo calls and sms
>> spam which almost makes the phone unusable for some people.
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> One anecdote for that: later this month, we plan to finally permanently disconnect our landline, and discatd the associated phone number, that has served our family since - I think - a little prior to 1990.  One of the reasons is that it has become bombarded by spam, in particular calls where there is no one (or at least, no one speaking up) on the other end.  Only a minority of calls are even arguably legitimate: an actual person who's not a telemarketer, or a robocall from an allowed source (such as an appointment reminder).
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> ...and in the middle of composing this, I got another spam call: someone who asked for another member of my household, and who hung up when I asked them to identify themselves.
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