[GRLUG] $50K Prize if You Find Way to Block Robocalls

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 10:51 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> >> And would involve the provider cutting / blocking access to someone who
> >> is paying them for access.  Never happen.
> > Agreed.  Just because it's technically the best place to implement the
> > solution, doesn't mean it'll ever happen.
> > There's also the safety and access to 911 and other emergency services
> > to consider.  But all that would be required is to whitelist all
> > emergency services, nation wide.  There's undoubtedly already a
> > registry of such numbers somewhere.  Pretty easy fix, but not one
> > you'd want to overlook.
> It's like the open Internet; you want *everyone* to have access, and
> you want the filtering to be the recipient's responsibility, possibly
> with cooperation with other recipients.
> Filtering at the source carries absolutely rotten, terrible
> consequences, far worse than the present scenario.

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