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Yes. I almost set up a "phone center" with the OSS asterisk package on a raspberry-pi. Basically the raspberry takes the call and waits for a few second silently, before forwarding the call to your phone (and only then it starts ringing). This way, robocallers hang up and your phone never rings.

Instead of waiting, you can also send control sounds to make the robocall believe the call has ended.




Brilliant idea. I'm bookmarking this in my "I want to try this Real Soon Now" pile of ideas.

If you ever do get around to trying it please post back to HN! Promise I'll do the same...



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