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  1. Your post advocates a
  2.  
  3. ( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
  4.  
  5. approach to fighting robocalls. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
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  7. ( ) Telemarketers can easily use it to harvest phone numbers
  8. ( ) Distributed phone centers and other legitimate spoofing uses would be affected
  9. ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
  10. ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
  11. ( ) It will stop robocalls for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
  12. ( ) Phone users will not put up with it
  13. ( ) AT&T will not put up with it
  14. ( ) The police will not put up with it
  15. ( ) Requires too much cooperation from telemarketers
  16. ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
  17. ( ) Many phone users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
  18. ( ) Telemarketers don't care about invalid numbers in their lists
  19. ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
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  21. Specifically, your plan fails to account for
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  23. ( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
  24. ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for telecom
  25. ( ) Open relays in foreign countries
  26. ( ) Ease of searching tiny numeric space of all phone numbers
  27. ( ) Asshats
  28. ( ) Jurisdictional problems
  29. ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
  30. ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
  31. ( ) Huge existing software investment in telecom infra
  32. ( ) Armies of phone banks
  33. ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
  34. ( ) Extreme profitability of robocalls
  35. ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
  36. ( ) Technically illiterate politicians
  37. ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who answer robocalls
  38. ( ) Dishonesty on the part of telemarketers themselves
  39. ( ) Network costs that are unaffected by client filtering
  40.  
  41. and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
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  43. ( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
  44. been shown practical
  45. ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
  46. ( ) Blacklists suck
  47. ( ) Whitelists suck
  48. ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
  49. ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
  50. ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
  51. ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
  52. ( ) Calling people should be free
  53. ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
  54. ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
  55. ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
  56. ( ) Temporary/one-time phone numbers are cumbersome
  57. ( ) I don't want the government monitoring phone calls
  58. ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
  59.  
  60. Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
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  62. ( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
  63. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
  64. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
  65. house down!
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