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I think there are plenty of legitimate callers who will just hang up if they get the robo screener. "Must have been a wrong number." "Weird, I got the operator.

I think there are plenty of legitimate callers who will just hang up if they get the robo screener. "Must have been a wrong number." "Weird, I got the operator." "I'm not dealing with this."

darkstar999 5y ago
If it's important they will leave a message or contact you a different way. No loss for me.
- jrootabega 5y ago
  My post very deliberately meant to disagree with that. Hanging up is mutually exclusive with leaving a message. Important to you is unfortunately not the same as important to the caller. A car mechanic or doctor's office might make very little effort to contact you another way, and might wait hours or a day before even attempting to do so. And we have delivery drivers known for giving up on delivering your stuff even in ideal circumstances.
  - antiframe 5y ago
    My experience has been entirely positive. Every dentist, day care, plumber, doctor, car mechanic, etc whose call I was expecting has said a terse reason for calling like "Doctor So-and-so" or "X car mechanic your car is ready" or "day care please call". Of course I have no data for calls I wasn't expecting, but given that any call I am not expecting is usually a call to action to do business with them "hey, your car has X thousand miles, come for an oil change" or "your cleaning is coming up next week" or something like that. Basically, if I am expecting the call, I 100% get them. If I am not expecting the call, I got a lot of them or they use another method like text or email. I am not aware of any calls I am not expecting that I missed out on, but my fear of missing out unsolicited calls is pretty low. And I trust that for unsolicited calls, they are more about getting through than I care about getting through.
lbhdc 5y ago
Are there plenty compared with to volume of spam? I have been using this service for a while, and check up on what its doing, and so far everything its filtered has been an unwanted call.
- jrootabega 5y ago
  Plenty meaning enough to affect your day when it happens, and likely enough to happen at some point in a normal life.
IE6 5y ago
That's fair - I've found the opposite: all this does is effectively push up the voicemail service to a layer I can interact with (as opposed to google voice voicemail) and usually important calls will attempt to interract with the robo screener or leave a message whereas spam will just ignore the robo screener entirely. This is purely my personal experience though and depending on how you use your phone (like in a business setting) and with who (like people who are legitimately busy) you may experience the complete opposite experience.

I think there are plenty of legitimate callers who will just hang up if they get the robo screener. "Must have been a wrong number." "Weird, I got the operator." "I'm not dealing with this."

darkstar999 5y ago

If it's important they will leave a message or contact you a different way. No loss for me.

jrootabega 5y ago
My post very deliberately meant to disagree with that. Hanging up is mutually exclusive with leaving a message. Important to you is unfortunately not the same as important to the caller. A car mechanic or doctor's office might make very little effort to contact you another way, and might wait hours or a day before even attempting to do so. And we have delivery drivers known for giving up on delivering your stuff even in ideal circumstances.
- antiframe 5y ago
  My experience has been entirely positive. Every dentist, day care, plumber, doctor, car mechanic, etc whose call I was expecting has said a terse reason for calling like "Doctor So-and-so" or "X car mechanic your car is ready" or "day care please call". Of course I have no data for calls I wasn't expecting, but given that any call I am not expecting is usually a call to action to do business with them "hey, your car has X thousand miles, come for an oil change" or "your cleaning is coming up next week" or something like that. Basically, if I am expecting the call, I 100% get them. If I am not expecting the call, I got a lot of them or they use another method like text or email. I am not aware of any calls I am not expecting that I missed out on, but my fear of missing out unsolicited calls is pretty low. And I trust that for unsolicited calls, they are more about getting through than I care about getting through.

lbhdc 5y ago

Are there plenty compared with to volume of spam? I have been using this service for a while, and check up on what its doing, and so far everything its filtered has been an unwanted call.

jrootabega 5y ago
Plenty meaning enough to affect your day when it happens, and likely enough to happen at some point in a normal life.

IE6 5y ago

That's fair - I've found the opposite: all this does is effectively push up the voicemail service to a layer I can interact with (as opposed to google voice voicemail) and usually important calls will attempt to interract with the robo screener or leave a message whereas spam will just ignore the robo screener entirely. This is purely my personal experience though and depending on how you use your phone (like in a business setting) and with who (like people who are legitimately busy) you may experience the complete opposite experience.