On 11/27/2023 2:07 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Retirednoguilt <
Hapily...@fakeaddress.com> wrote:
>
>>> . . .
>
>> Sorry, I don't know what an "ATA" is.
>
> Analogue telephone adapter
>
> Many (but not all) digital voice services use SIP. Generally, you need a
> telephone instrument that incorporates SIP or an ATA for use with an
> existing analogue telephone instrument.
>
You did it again. What is "SIP"?
>> Furthermore, I used to get a slew
>> of spam/robocalls to my GV phone number that far exceeded how many I
>> received on my landline. (Google must have sold its GV listings to the
>> highest bidders because I never called shady numbers on either my
>> landline or GV number and never gave out my GV phone number to anyone.)
>
> That's not how it works.
That's not how what works? Are you trying to say that all
span/robocalls are made by automatic random dialers? There's no black
market out there any more for curated lists of verified numbers and no
legitimate business can sell its customer/subscriber phone lists because
the market for those lists has disappeared?
>
>> In any case, I would not have wanted the hookup you suggest because
>> although it would have solved the issue I described (and thank you for
>> making the suggestion and describing the hookup), I make too few toll
>> calls to compensate for the additional nuisance of all the trash calls
>> to my GV if they were ported over and ringing my landline phone. (This
>> was back in the days when I still had a plain copper wire analog phone
>> line and no capacity to use NOMOROBO or similar services.)
>
> Er no. My suggestion was porting your existing phone number into Google
> Voice. You don't wish to receive calls on the number provided with
> your Google Voice service so you didn't need to keep that number.
I don't understand the consequences of doing that. Would that route all
calls to my land line to GV instead or redundantly with having those
incoming calls go to both my land line circuit and GV concurrently? If
to GV voice account exclusively, that would have been a disaster as I
only connected to GV on my desktop PC once or twice/month for the time
it took to make a call and otherwise was not logged in. Besides, my PC
is off much more than on. If instead the call was routed to both
concurrently, would the call have been picked up by my home answering
machine (when I had analog landline I used a stand alone answering
machine or by GV's voice mail?
Just trying to understand how this would have worked. Of course it's
moot since moving to current home and having voice over internet digital
phone line.
>
>> Now, I use NOMOROBO with home landline phones that enable me to mute the
>> first ring of all incoming calls. NOMOROBO takes care of almost all the
>> unwanted calls and I'm not even bothered by the otherwise annoying first
>> ring before NOMOROBO intercepts and blocks the call.
>
> That service was long thwarted by false CID.
Maybe so but not in my experience. When I go to my Comcast Voice
calling activity log on line, I usually see at least 4-8 unfamiliar
incoming calls of fewer than 15 seconds duration every day that never
appear on my phone's handset screen (that shows the previous 50 incoming
calls). In fact, many days, my phone never rings at all but the Comcast
log shows numerous incoming calls on that day. Maybe once every 5-10
days I'll get one junk call ring through. Even spoofed caller ID calls
are being blocked somehow because one of the most commonly blocked calls
is supposedly from The Washington Post and the number on the caller ID
screen is the Post's legitimate phone number. Would the Post try to
call me sometimes 3 or 4 times each day, sometimes with only a 10 minute
interval between calls? Once I even called them to check if they had
any concerns pertaining to my account with them even though I continued
to receive the paper daily and I had not received any recent e-mails
from them even though my e-mail address is part of my account
information. They told me that everything was in order.