Comment by rurp

How long does it take to listen to a voicemail and call them back? A one or two minute delay is almost never going to cause an issue.

Even in the highest crime areas the ratio of spam calls to legit and urgent calls is going to be thousands to one. You can cumulatively save a lot of time and annoyance by not answering all of those spam calls. I'm actually surprised to see this debated, I also stopped answering unknown numbers years ago and thought that was standard at this point.