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Tuesday: Political Spam Blocking Plans?

posted by LaminatorX on Monday November 03 2014, @08:14PM   Printer-friendly
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VLM writes:

Any software plans for blocking political spam on Tuesday election day?

Last presidential election I got more than one political text message spam per hour, which was getting incredibly annoying and distruptive. Also I got about one legacy landline phone call every 90 minutes. ALL DAY LONG.

My plan for this election is I have Mr Number on my phone and I'm hoping the spam sources will be blacklisted fast enough that I won't get spammed to death. I have no plan for the legacy landline, turn off the ringer and delete 10 voicemails on Wednesday, I guess.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone has some good technological ideas for spam blocking given whats likely to happen starting in less than 24 hours.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Adamsjas on Tuesday November 04 2014, @01:44AM

    by Adamsjas (4507) on Tuesday November 04 2014, @01:44AM (#112831)

    I have no idea how many spam emails I might be getting in a day, because between Google and Spamassassin, I just never see them. If one gets thru, I mark it spam, and either my mail server or Google's makes sure I never see that again.

    For the last 5 or 6 years, spam has just NOT been an issue.

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