I am reposting this after realizing that comp.dcom.telecom is not the right group for this kind of question. I hope this one is.
Is there a home/home office telecom device, eg. answering machine or caller id unit, that allows you to program in numbers to be blocked or to receive a custom message. I would like all other calls to go through as usual.
I would even be willing to look at PC software if it was the only/best way.
Thanks.
I have a box like that but it requires me to push the button while the call is in progress. I would like to filter them out without my having to interact. Or does your box do that?
Radio Shack made a CID box that allowed you to block calls, they would get a message simular to the reject message that the telephone companies offer. I got one in 1999, and still have it. I can block calls that the normal rejection service will not. I don't think that they make them anymore. Maybe someone will have one they want to sell or knows of one like them.
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No Mine is like yours, it just takes one time. You can also lockout out of area and blocked, once it is in there is will block all no Caller ID blocked numbers.
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Such devices _do_ exist.
Check out Hello Direct, also
I'm pretty sure one of the has such a gizmo.
Yep. Have one, and one (still in box) purchased at close-out. A totally unique implementation which allowed you to blacklist "out of area" as though it were a phone number too. From what I hear, the manufacturer was sued for patent infringement over this device and it disappeared forever.
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