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Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
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Re: Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
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Note that US law has carve outs for politicians and their campaigns. They are exempt on both email and phone spam as I recall.
These people are terrorists to my email filters, what can I do to make their behavior really hurt?
Since they use VoIP SMS and "first name" it's pretty hard to resort to the old fashioned doxxing despite living in the golden age of data leaks.
I would suggest simply wasting their time as much as possible (I've lead on such people pretending to be naive and caused great frustration). But ideally, not to waste your own time.
I think in the near future android-local chatbots will be further along, or iphone-local, and ideally one can run the chatbot. and you can just set the chatbot to "waste this person's time" as we will have chatbots for "flirt with this potential date and schedule drinks". Of course the endpoint of such a world is chatbots all around and no humans.
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
You need to up the swag on your online persona. I get this message from "rich horsey lady" periodically: >I'm Alyssa. are you the equestrian instructor that Tina referred me to? >I'm very sorry, I just checked the number and it was my assistant who sent the wrong number, I hope I'm not disturbing you. >Thank you for understanding, you are a friendly person, I have found the right number, your number and the riding in…
Just to screw with them, you should make a fake business website for Tina the Trainer, with that phone number listed and everything and AI photos of fake lessons with Alyssa.
Yes!
Re: Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
#385I wish Apple would natively support more filtering options. Same with the Phone app. I get a dozen calls a day from “Spam” or “Political” callers yet I can’t ignore or send them to voicemail. I can send every unknown number to voicemail but that’s too heavy handed to ever work. There’s a lot of valid communication with folks that I never add to my contacts, I shouldn’t have to add them to my contacts proactively just to get their initial call. I never usually know what number they’d be calling me from.
It’s the same with texts. They could filter these in a more useful way. Also, IMO, I shouldn’t see a counter bubble if I filtered out/missed a call that went to voicemail. I’m an inbox zero type and having bubbles means there’s something that needs attention. Spam doesn’t need attention.
Re: Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And in fact businesses have to regularly check for requests even like "please don't send me messages" to be compliant. That's only vaguely true. The FCC has effectively said "here's a list of words that are considered reasonable opt out words and let the courts decide what is reasonable when there is a dispute." [0] They're basically deferring to the courts to determine reasonableness. Obviously it's a good practic…
Sorry for the late reply, but these are rules from the CTIA, not the FCC that I am referring to. The CTIA being an industry body for telecoms in US.
(Even later reply) Ah I see. I wasn’t familiar with the CTIA. It’s good to know that there are best practices that go beyond the FCC.