On May 25, 4:31 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> > On May 17, 8:22 am, Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Declan Murphy wrote:
> >>> Ever since I added the "not helpful" file to my site, I get bugger all
> >>> requests for that kind of crap. Try something similar?
> >>>http://www.yamasa.org/member/declan/not_helpful.html
> >> My page at:http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/say_noh.html
> >> has cut down requests mightily too.
>
> > And yours is actually helpful :-)  I might add a bit about spelling,
> > punctuation etc too. At the moment what is really pissing me off
> > though is people calling me using Skype etc.
>
> As soon as I set Skype to only accept calls from people on my calling
> list things got a lot quieter.  No more drunk Estonian teenagers at 0400
> in the morning.

I don't use Skype at work. The problem is people using Skype and
equivalents to call our normal telephone numbers to ask questions,
instead of just reading the website or writing an email. It adds a
fair bit to labor costs and reduces our productivity a fair bit.