On 9/9/2019 6:44 PM, Still Bud wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 15:51:04 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 9/6/2019 3:18 PM, Still Bud wrote:
>>> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 09:48:19 -0600, notbob > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/5/2019 7:09 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's not the only answer. I've never been near FB and I get occasional
>>>>> unwanted calls on my cell phone. The calling number is generally the
>>>>> same exchange as my cell phone, to make it look like a local call.
>>>>
>>>> Same here, but I usually answer local calls anyway, unless it's MY own
>>>> phone number.
>>>
>>> There WAS a time when a 'local' call WAS really local.
>>> But now, with cells and spoofing, you have no idea where
>>> a call is coming from.
>>>
>> So true. Technology is not necessarily a blessing.
>>
>> Remember the days before caller ID? We'd answer the phone because,
>> unless it was actually a wrong number, it was someone we knew. Those
>> were also the days before robo-calls and auto-dialers.
>
> Tech never has been perfect.
>
> I remember a Thanksgiving back in the late 60s.
>
> Family had just sat down for dinner when the phone rang.
> I answered it, and there were at least a dozen people on the line,
> EACH saying THEY hadn't made a call, but gotten one. They were all
> across the country. As I was taking with them, a few dropped out, and
> you could HEAR the ringing with others answering. Stayed like that for
> about 20 minutes until I finally hung up.
>
Yeah... except I wasn't getting many phone calls in the 1960's and don't
recall ever being on a party-line.

Jill