My land line is ringing every few minutes...

[RainCaster]

All robocalls from 3rd world scammers. We stopped answering it.

[MiniMe]

1. I never answer my landline unless it is someone I know

Big Surprise, nobody leaves messages

[unblock]

2. What's a land line?

Lol

I haven't answered mine since I got my first answering machine.

[drray23]

3. those of us in rural america still have that.

where we live my cellphone is 2 bars on good days, zero if its raining/storming.

[dflprincess]

4. I do not live in a rural area but I keep my land line

because it is more reliable than a cell phone.

Yes, I have a cell & I have had two of them that were working fine one day & when I picked them up the next morning they had gone to cell phone heaven & nothing could bring them back. I live alone, I am not young, I need a phone I can depend on.

[Laffy Kat]

7. I miss my landline so much. I used to talk for hours to my sister and friends...

We'd chat about nothing, reminisce and laugh. It's a completely different experience on a cell and I keep it short and to the point. I don't know how I'd date now without a landline; how would you get to know someone without long calls?

[unblock]

5. I know, we live out in the woods

We kept our land line as a backup for years, only got rid of it recently after the signal finally became more reliable.

[yonder]

6. We've gotten upwards of a dozen calls today on ours.

Haven't answered any. There's been a real uptick in those calls this week.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I have both cell and landline, and mainly because I can hear better on the landline

I don't anticipate getting rid of it.

I get a reasonable share of robo calls, but I simply hang up as soon as I figure that out. Most of the time, even though I'm supposed to have caller ID, the system doesn't capture the phone number of the caller. I have a friend I talk to every single day, and his name and number show up maybe a third of the time. So if I never answered the phone if I couldn't see a known number, I'd miss a lot of his calls.

Although if for any reason I don't feel like answering a particular call, I know that if it's important enough a message will be left.

[Happy Hoosier]

9. Ditch the landline....

No one ever called it except scammers.

[Demovictory9]

11. They call cell phones too

[abqtommy]

10. Even though my "landline" is a VOIP/Voice Over Internet Protocol setup I still have a wire

connection to my phone(s) that I can unplug if I get persistent junk callers. Caller ID may be the best
thing that ever happened to phone service!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

12. Whatever happened

To the do not call list.

This shit got worse by far since trump.

[drray23]

13. it never covered political calls. nt.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

14. I know political calls were allowed

But what about shithead telemarketers,scammers spam calls. They were prohibited.