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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is determined to help consumers fight robocalls, and they've come up with an adorably bureaucratic new way to do it: a gigantic spreadsheet, updated weekly.The spreadsheet will contain all the numbers reported by consumer complaints, which the FCC said it relies on to combat telemarketers. You might wonder how many people can be bothered to do more than just hang up the phone, but the FCC's statement said it receives more complaints about robocalls than anything else, with more than 215,000 complaints last year.The spreadsheet data will be available to the public as a CSV file, but the FCC hopes it will be used primarily by third parties who are interested in building blocklists into their products. Though it has become much easier to block certain numbers on a smartphone, landlines remain difficult for the FCC to protect, especially because charities and politicians are allowed to use robocalls to drive donations.