On 2025-08-29 05:38, CAREY SCHUG via Talk wrote:

When I do a web search, I find devices "preloaded with xxx thousand numbers" or room for me to add xxx thousand numbers, but IME, spam/robo calls never come from the same number twice, so that is a waste of me pressing the "block call" feature.

I want an answering machine including multiple cordless phones, and maybe that will connect to bluetooth to handle mobile calls too, that will:

About 4 years ago I moved and at the same time moved my land line to a VOIP provider(voip.ms).

On that line I have installed an IVR that asks the caller to press 1 to be connected.

This has cut down the number of robocalls to 0.

It also provides the usual features like messages but can also forward the messages as email.

The one thing I have now that I did not before is SMS on my home number which is also forwarded via email.

This will not solve your handset problem but you could get a cheap multi-handset answering-machine phone system and just disable the answering part.

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