Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers
by caseysoftware on Saturday June 03, 2017 @11:51PM
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One of the most important/valuable things about Twilio is that people can get started easily with little friction. If you add a bond (aka insurance) into the process, you've added a ton of friction that will only solve a problem relevant in a tiny percentage of situations.
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Yes, and also, as toast0 says, it's likely to be impossible to have all those providers agree on such a system.
But phone operators should do something, like block voicemails left by a robot, either by detecting them automatically, or blacklisting numbers, or, why not, offer the option of a captcha before leaving a message:
in order to leave a message to this person, please enter the result of the following operation: how much is 3 times 4...
Maybe there's an opportunity for a startup here. It could work before the fact with a captcha as above, or after the fact: it would listen to your messages and spam-rate them.
Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers
by caseysoftware on Sunday June 04, 2017 @10:13AM
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https://www.nomorobo.com/ does the rating based on phone number, effectively an RBL
It doesn't have to be that complicated. Consider, for example, the credit card pre-authorization hotels perform when you check into a hotel, to ensure you can pay for incidental expenses (room service, mini bar, etc).
One can easily imagine doing something similar at signup time for postpaid services like Twilio (or any other abusable SaaS, for that matter).