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From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Need Info on spam blocking app for cell phones
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:21:56 -0700
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:22:40 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
> 
> Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > VanguardLH wrote:
> >
> >> <sam@invalid.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> What is the app many people have on their cell phones that requires a
> >>> caller to tap in two numbers in order to have the other party answer?
> >> 
> >> You sure you aren't asking about call screening which is a feature of
> >> the telco/cellular service provider?
> > 
> > Or a feature of Android. Call Screening is on my Pixel phone, and 
> > from the descriptive text in its settings I'm pretty sure this is not 
> > something from my provider, Visible.
> 
> It isn't a feature of Google's Phone app?

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. It's _not_ a feature of my 
"telco/cellular service provider", yet I still have it through 
Android, or more specifically through the Phone app.

> Call screening by an app on your phone does not obviate a call screening
> feature with your cellular service. 

Sure, but that statement is not equivalent to "the only way to get 
call screening is through your 'telco/cellular service provider'."

You replied to (I think) the OP with "call screening which is a 
feature of the telco/cellular service provider". I was just pointing 
out that there is at least one more source of that feature. Given how 
hard many cell service providers are to deal with, it seems that 
people who want call screening would want to know it's worth looking 
for in their Phone app. As you point out, it would have been more 
helpful if I had said "phone app" instead of the vaguer "Android."

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