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icarusAttention: Techies!
Why, that's all of you, isn't it?
How do I solve the problem of my dial-up making it impossible for people to call in?
I'm sure you all know or suspect I spend a lot of time online. Apparently there are humans out there (who knew?) who still use phones instead of IM, who want to call (using the telephone?), and are getting irate. I've yet to see a brick fly through the window though no doubt some of my friends are tempted.
The Puppy was so frustrated he bought and mailed us a splitter and CallerID box. Uh. I didn't think that would work and, no, it didn't.
I seem to recall that there was some sort of online software-or-something where, IF you had call waiting, you'd get a little pop-up that a call was coming in -- and you flipped a switch?
Any ideas? Solutions? Brilliant suggestions?
Signed,
Poor College Student with an Internet Addiction and No DSL
Why, that's all of you, isn't it?
How do I solve the problem of my dial-up making it impossible for people to call in?
I'm sure you all know or suspect I spend a lot of time online. Apparently there are humans out there (who knew?) who still use phones instead of IM, who want to call (using the telephone?), and are getting irate. I've yet to see a brick fly through the window though no doubt some of my friends are tempted.
The Puppy was so frustrated he bought and mailed us a splitter and CallerID box. Uh. I didn't think that would work and, no, it didn't.
I seem to recall that there was some sort of online software-or-something where, IF you had call waiting, you'd get a little pop-up that a call was coming in -- and you flipped a switch?
Any ideas? Solutions? Brilliant suggestions?
Signed,
Poor College Student with an Internet Addiction and No DSL
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Re: Telemarketers
Date: 2007-08-02 06:19 pm (UTC)I always thought an old-fashioned answering machine was the way to go. Plus! We can install a recording of birds chirping to entertain the cat. A little random event for his day....
Pre-dialup I was so paranoid about handing out my phone number that the only telemarketing calls I ever got were from the phone company. Everyone else got the dedicated voicemail number. I do the same with my email. I have a dedicated "junkmail" email wherever I'm risking spam-a-lot.
Re: Telemarketers
Date: 2007-08-02 06:52 pm (UTC)Oh gosh yes! *that one yahoo account: shudder*
I sadly have to say, my university does a crap job here, both publicizing my phone number, and letting my email get progressively more spam. And I have a fac/staff/grad instructor account, too: the undergrads told me they got so much, many of them didn't bother ever checking it. And seeing some of it, and knowing folks who weren't doing anything to attract it, I could see why really, when an undergrad doesn't get that email to the class? It's not always that they're "lazy," they are just avoiding their spammed account - which is not their fault.