🚀 go-pugleaf

Beartooth <karhunhammas@Lserv.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.43.0203120944030.13077-100000@saltmine.radix.net...
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, John Mazor wrote:
>
> > I have one.  I don't think the explanation was correct --
> > the manual says it sends a signal that tells the caller's
> > computer that the number is no longer valid, or some such
> > thing.  It must work sometimes -- I once picked up the
> > phone, only to have a computerized voice tell me "Sorry,
> > wrong number."  Of course, it's dependent on the caller's
> > system bothering to recognize the signal from the zapper.
> > My guess is that it is at best partially effective.
>
> Sigh. As expected. Comes the Gretchenfrage : is it
> worth what you paid for it? Does it seem effective enough to
> be worth the expense (and presumably bother) of getting and
> installing -- or is it just marginal? Do you recommend it?

It was a Chrsitmas gift and no installation charge -- just plug it in.

I just got around to installing it a month ago.  Too early to tell --
I still get spam phone calls.  The numbers seem to be decreasing, but
that's anecdotal.  All I know is the one case where I picked up and
heard the caller's computer say "Sorry, wrong number."  Presumably the
computer reclassified my number as no longer valid.  I have no idea
how many of the calls that I didn't answer resulted in the same
outcome.