You can stop robocalls

[hermetic]

Last year the FTC had a contest to find a way to stop these calls. Aaron Foss, a software programmer who is one of the co-winners, has now launched a new service called Nomorobo. And it's free.

Nomorobo is currently available if your phone service is provided by: Verizon FiOS, Vonage, VoiP service with AT&T, U-verse, Cablevision Optimum, or SureWest. If your phone carrier is on their list, Nomorobo will block all those aggravating calls and you will only hear one ring.

If your service is not on the list, the website gives you a phone number to call in order to request that your provider join the list. The more people call, the sooner the carrier will consider adding the free option.

Get Nomorobo here: http://www.nomorobo.com/

[Vadem]

1. I have Verizon and tried to apply to nomorobo and it told me that

Verizon was not supporting them! They said they will email me when Verizon does support them. I did not get a phone number to call Verizon.

[hermetic]

2. For me, personally,

I don't have a phone affected by robocalls. But I went to the link and looked at the provided list, which is quite large, and saw both Verizon traditional landline and Verizon FiOS so I clicked that one, put in my email address and got this message:

Good News! At least one of your carriers support Nomorobo.
Please check your email for a link to complete the signup process.
If you don't receive it soon, please check your spam folder.
If you have any other questions or comments, please send an email to [e-mail]

Within minutes I received an email (sure enough, in my spam folder) which welcomed me and gave a link to sign up. I didn't click it since I don't actually have a phone number to put in.

Since this is a pretty new thing I'm sure there will be some kinks to be worked out, but hopefully enough people will try it out to get it all up and running and soon many fewer meals and naps will be ruined by some unwelcome call.