A random phone message rant

[pomtzu]

I didn't even realize that something like this is possible. What would be the point if they know no one is going to answer??

[Grace]

Like Ellie, I didn't know anyone could do that.

I think we have solved our unwanted phone call problem. We recently bought a cordless Panasonic that has a call block feature. We can put 30 numbers into the phone that we want to block; along with all those that say out-of-area, private call, unknown. When one of these calls comes in, the phone rings once, and then it is cut off.

It works - there was an unavailable last week. It rang once and stopped. We have put in 4 numbers on our own.

This should be a God-send come the next election time

[Asiel]

Guess I'm not to savy either because I never heard of this before myself. Seems anyone can get through to us no matter what we do. Maybe the call blocking is the best way to avoid these calls, we get so many it's frustrating sometimes.
I know I've come home to find messages on my phone and some are from different call centres who actually leave messages....it seems when the answering machine goes off it activares their machine and it leaves a message automatically.