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A white list can be quite problematic itself when one has a LOT of people who call him/her for legitimate reasons.

A white list can be quite problematic itself when one has a LOT of people who call him/her for legitimate reasons.

True, but what you are talking about has no "easy" solution.

You pick from say 100 whilelisting of 10,000 blacklistings.

A white list can be quite problematic itself when one has a LOT of people who call him/her for legitimate reasons.

Well, there is voice mail.

Which can be a pain in the ass as well if dozens of friends/acquaintances are leaving messages because they're not on my whitelist.

Duplicate post to notify some key folks requesting wildcard blacklist...

Ooma just enabled wildcard blacklisting viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15436&start=0#p108297

For me, I had 247 blacklist entries today.....using a more conservative approach, just combining same NPA-NXX (at least and most of the time, combining entries with same NPA-NXX or Area Code-Exchange and like 1st digit subscriber number), I got my entries down to 197. Also, I can now block most invalid phone numbers using 0* and 1* entries (phone number starting with 0 or 1). In case I am blocking some numbers that I shouldn't be, I set the treatment to "voicemail;" now, waiting for entry level treatment option and enhanced blacklist manageability.

Took some more time today to consolidate blacklist entries even further getting rid of all Toll Free entries and replacing with 800*, 855*, 866*, 877*, 888*

Now, my blacklist only has 149 entries.

Note: in case a legit Toll Free calls me, I have the Personal Blacklist treament going to voicemail.

Something on which I wanted to double-check...

I've got my free 2nd number on my Premier service. I also have an additional number for "business" purposes (that's one of the $4.99/mo. numbers). If I blacklist a number or a range on one number, does it apply to all numbers, or do I have to blacklist a number specifically on my secondary or tertiary account? One of the main reasons I ask is because when I moved last summer, I kept my old number, which used to be my primary one but is now my free secondary number, and switched my old secondary #, which is now the area code in which I live, to be my primary number. I often receive unwanted calls to my old primary (again, now secondary) #.

I hope I haven't confused everybody by now.

Unless you have a private account (assigned a number of yours to a Linx device, HD2 handset, Scout if you have a Hub etc) and login to those accounts separately, the blacklist you create applies to all numbers in your main account.

In a little over 2 years, outside of Toll Free numbers, I've blacklisted numbers falling in about 50 some area codes that are outside of my neighboring/local area.

I've added wildcard blacklist entries to block those area codes that I know I won't usually get legit calls from (and deleted relevant explicit blacklist entries having to do with these area codes).

Here is what I have now (all redirected to VM):

• Wildcard entries to block all Toll Free calls (5 entries).
• Wildcard entries to block most area codes that I blacklisted before and I don't usually get legit calls from (about 50 entries).
• Wildcard entries that are more explicit for neighboring/local area code numbers that I blacklisted before (at least area code + exchange and then plus 1st digit of subscriber number in cases).
• Wildcard entries to block most invalid numbers (0* and 1*).
• Outside of what the above covers, explicit blacklisted numbers.

Now, I am down to 111 personal blacklist entries from 247.

For those who want to block every number out there, all you need is 10 entries (0* through 9*)
But you probably don't want to block all numbers in area codes near you.

In 3 days, I had 2 spam calls so had to add 2 more area-code* entries.

Something different I noticed...although call logs show 10 digit numbers for these spam calls, my callerid device is showing the numbers with 2 leading 1s "11" then the number. Anyone else having this?