Yeah, I go one step further - if I ever get cold-called by a recruiter I stop them mid-sentence and tell them that I do not take cold calls, and that they are w

Yeah, I go one step further - if I ever get cold-called by a recruiter I stop them mid-sentence and tell them that I do not take cold calls, and that they are welcome to email me. If they try to keep talking I hang up. Most recruiter contacts are woefully far from anything that might even remotely interest me - neither I nor the recruiter should be wasting 10 minutes of our lives to find this out.