Bent Wrench wrote:
I dream of using asterisk or some other switchboard software to whitelist incoming calls but the FAX machine trick has worked well enough that motivation is low.
I don't understand why nobody has a whitelist app for Android. I have half a dozen people I want to accept calls from; otherwise, I don't want it to ring. I got my carrier (Verizon) to turn off texts and voicemail; they drag their feet and whine, but they *will* do it. Lasts a couple of years, then they turn them back on and it takes another two or three hours on the phone before they'll turn them off again.
DAK, or one of its clones, used to sell a doodad thirty or so years ago. It picked up the phone, played a message, and waited for a passcode. The message could be "enter extension number" or whatever. You could pass your number out everywhere, but only give the passcode to people you wanted to hear from. If the code got out, you could change it. Alas, I've been unable to find anything like that now.