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by marcosdumay 2506 days ago
I have to side with the GP here. The options are completely losing the telephone system because nobody trusts anything coming from it anymore, or having those pre-2000 systems upgraded. It's a no-brainier.

Yet, we seem to be committed into destroying the entire system.
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sq_ 2506 days ago
It's really amazing how little trust people have in the telephone system now.

At least on personal devices/lines, everyone I've talked about it with now refuses to pick up any call from a number they don't recognize, which is really the only option when 2/3 of the calls you get daily are spam. Most just assume that if it's important, the caller will leave a message.

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cabaalis 2505 days ago
> everyone I've talked about it with now refuses to pick up any call from a number they don't recognize

This is true, and also burned me last weekend. My dog set off my alarm system and the phone identified ADT as "potential spam" so I didn't answer it. The police showed up at my house. Fixed by adding ADT to my contacts, but the distrust is real.

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reaperducer 2506 days ago
everyone I've talked about it with now refuses to pick up any call from a number they don't recognize

I wish this was the case where I work. My boss answers every single call that comes in to her cell phone. Sometimes 15 a day. Then everyone in the office has to listen as she tries to interrupt the sales pitch and tell them "take me off your mailing (!) list."

And she's a millennial. I thought millennials didn't use voice.

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