Blacklist maximum reached
Have you accidentally posted your number on the internet?
I have 6 phone numbers in three different states and get one or two spam calls a week. Most of the numbers never get any calls. The one that gets the most is the Verizon landline which is listed in the white pages.
The blacklist for my 4 year old Hub has 99 entries and the blacklist for the Telo has 4 entries.
All 6 numbers are on the "Do Not Call list.
I have 6 phone numbers in three different states and get one or two spam calls a week. Most of the numbers never get any calls. The one that gets the most is the Verizon landline which is listed in the white pages.
The blacklist for my 4 year old Hub has 99 entries and the blacklist for the Telo has 4 entries.
All 6 numbers are on the "Do Not Call list.
Customer since January 2009
Telo with 2 Handsets, a Linx, and a Safety Phone
Telo2 with 2 Handsets and a Linx
Telo with 2 Handsets, a Linx, and a Safety Phone
Telo2 with 2 Handsets and a Linx
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Re: Blacklist maximum reached
No, my # is unlisted and has never been made public (by me, at least) on the Internet or anywhere else I can think of.
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You do realize that Telemarketers buys phones numbers in blocks of hundreds, right? Some have several allocated blocks of numbers meaning they have a few thousand numbers to call from.
This is why block by individual numbers is a ruse. We need a blacklist where we can block by name and or phone using wild cards.
This is why block by individual numbers is a ruse. We need a blacklist where we can block by name and or phone using wild cards.
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I suppose changing your phone number is not and option? Sounds like you angered some kook and you are being targeted for harrasment.
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Maybe, but this happen very soon after porting to Ooma and it's coming from not one, but several places.skipbisconer wrote:I suppose changing your phone number is not and option? Sounds like you angered some kook and you are being targeted for harrasment.
If I angered someone, it must have been for switching to Ooma. But the point is moot as many others here have experience similar problems and there is a solution - black or while listing.
I could get rid of my 30+ year old number, but on second though, nope.
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See: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=15273&p=106542#p106542 Once support for wildcarding has been released you will be able to collapse a lot of entries into one, thereby freeing up space.
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Yes, many of us have been asking for a very long time and Ooma has been saying they are working on it for a long time too.
I remain hopeful that it will eventually be implemented, but understand that for some of us, Ooma remains worthless due to the high number of tele-marketers we are getting ever since switching to Ooma.
I personally have stop paying for Ooma Premier due to no black/while listing. If/when it's implemented, I will resume Ooma Premier service.
What would be helpful is not a "we are working on it", but a time line. So if you say it will be ready in the year 2050, that's much more helpful than saying "we are working on it".
Best,
Joe
I remain hopeful that it will eventually be implemented, but understand that for some of us, Ooma remains worthless due to the high number of tele-marketers we are getting ever since switching to Ooma.
I personally have stop paying for Ooma Premier due to no black/while listing. If/when it's implemented, I will resume Ooma Premier service.
What would be helpful is not a "we are working on it", but a time line. So if you say it will be ready in the year 2050, that's much more helpful than saying "we are working on it".
Best,
Joe
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We're targeting to release it in the first half of this year.
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It has been a little over 2 years since I started adding entries in my blacklist. I feel that Ooma Blacklist is a great feature that no one should be without (with improvements coming, it will be even better); I am sure a lot of Premier users out there feel the same way.joe123 wrote:Ooma remains worthless due to the high number of tele-marketers we are getting ever since switching to Ooma.
Well, after 2 years, my blacklist is bumping up against the 256 limit. I just went in and cleared out 10 or more entries to make room. What I find useful is the "comments" section when adding an entry into the blacklist. Before adding an entry, I google the number and see if some info comes back from 800notes, whocallsme, whocalled, etc. If I find any info, I make sure to make a note of it in comments. The comments I left in the entries helped me in deciding what entries to get rid of; also, the entry detail would tell you when you added it so that will help you as well when cleaning up entries.
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The current single phone entry is better than nothing, but let's get back down to reality.
Telemarketers buy numbers in batches of hundreds / thousands of numbers.
It would be a full time job to monitor all and then you have the limit of 256.
A white-list on the other hand is very manageable. Or a wild-card black-list.
But the current setup is not realistic.
Telemarketers buy numbers in batches of hundreds / thousands of numbers.
It would be a full time job to monitor all and then you have the limit of 256.
A white-list on the other hand is very manageable. Or a wild-card black-list.
But the current setup is not realistic.