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Re:Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients by srcmap on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:13PM (#20208975)
I wonder if there is way to get a personal 900 # and cost the spammer $10 per minute.

For $600/hr, I wouldn't mind to receive the spamming calls from them. Maybe some robo dialer might just be stupid enough to call? $$$$ :-)

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Re:Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients by Scoundreller on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:37PM (#20209339)
That's a thing in the UK: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23869462 7p/minute, but still not bad.

The whole problem with robocalls is that your provider gets paid some small pittance to terminate the call, but gives none of that to you. Because they don't want to change, they drag their heels and complain and complain.

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Re:Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients by vageli on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:46PM (#20209377)
> That's a thing in the UK: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23869462 7p/minute, but still not bad.

> The whole problem with robocalls is that your provider gets paid some small pittance to terminate the call, but gives none of that to you. Because they don't want to change, they drag their heels and complain and complain.

This must be the same logic used to allow for spam physical mail but laws against the virtual sort.

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Re:Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients by MRD85 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:09AM (#20210156)
Some guy in the UK did this. It's fairly hard to manage however, because there is a lot of regulations around his legal requirements i.e. needs to disclose that it's a paid number, etc. He make a bit of sidecash off it and a surprising number of spam callers are happy to pay.
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