Do not call do-not-call
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Canada’s Do-Not-Call list only went up today, and it’s considerably less than perfect.
Nonethless, “So many people are trying to register their phone numbers on the federal do-not-call list, the website has crashed and the phone lines have a constant busy tone,” says the CBC, going on:
“The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has projected that of Canada’s 27 million residential phone lines, which include cellphone numbers, 16 million would be on the do-not-call list within two years.
“However, it’s possible the CRTC didn’t expect millions to try to join the list in the first week. The CRTC confirmed the website went live at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, and about 200,000 people were able to register before it crashed eight or nine hours later.”
Bell Canada is currently under heavy fire from its own users for trying to throttle their traffic but ironically, it is in charge of operating the list and is trying to get the website back up.
“Not surprisingly, conspiracy theories, humorous or otherwise, are already developing about the ‘true’ reason people cannot register, says the CDC, putting comment poster Lorne Bellamy, of Bradford, Ontario, as saying:
“Don’t try to register for the DNCL… the website just shut down and the phone lines don’t work! I guess the CRTC has put themselves on the list!”
(Thanks, Luvie)
considerably less than perfect – Marketing ‘Don’t Call List’ opens today, September 30, 2008
CBC – Website, phone lines for do-not-call list overwhelmed, September 30, 2008
currently under heavy fire – p2pnet traffic shaping digest, April 19, 2008
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September 30th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I guess the CRTC has put themselves on the list!”
LOL
September 30th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Additionally, Michael Geist’s iOptOut site is also not functioning in a usable manner as well.
All the personal management pages have been besieged with a repeating script error (which I’ve reported to them more than once) over the last month!
I got a “confirmation” message from iOptOut a few days ago, letting me know that notices have been sent to all appropriate organizations to reflect my apparent choice of ALLOWING EVERYONE to call me! (I chose the opposite, and there was no mistake.)
I know it’s probably an “honest” mistake…
But, what a mistake!!
September 30th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Yesterday, I was watching a CityTV poll, looking to see how many people didn’t want to be called by marketers. At one point, the results showed that, out of about 1500 people, only 50 said they wanted to be called.
If that’s the case, why can’t we just outlaw the practice and let these morons in the 3-4% approval bracket CALL THE MARKETERS THEMSELVES?!!
September 30th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
It shows just what a dog, not only the telemarketers but the advertising industry as well is. No one but no one except those that profit of it in some way support it. The excuse that it lowers the bills to be paid by the end user of the services is hogwash. That’s the reason being hoisted off on you to accept it. The real reason behind the support is that the broadcast media are double dipping for profit. Getting paid by the subscriber for the access and by the advertisers for the same access.
They well know the user of the service doesn’t like it. It is one of the prime reasons I have quit tv.
I HATE ADVERTISING WITH A PASSION!
September 30th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
try: http://www.ioptout.ca/
September 30th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
@Ethereal…
Have you been to that site recently?
Did you read the post made to this page at 4:32?
IOptOut is still crippled.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:52 am
@Devil’s Advocate:
The purpose of iOptOut.ca is to _complement_ the CRTC do-not-call list, not to replace it. iOptOut contains only exempted organizations.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:51 pm
@RW:
Where in my postings did I say iOptOut was a replacement for the DNCL??
I only mentioned the site was crippled, as an addendum to the info that the DNCL site wasn’t available. And, I reiterated that IOptOut was crippled, because a link to it was pointed out right after saying it all.
I half expected the DNCL to be overwhelmed on the release date (after all, Bell is too small a company with too limited resources), but to see iOptOut crippled this past month with a stupid script error (when it’s been out for a number of months now), just struck me as a point of contention.
With an estimated 95+% of all people not wanting ANYONE calling against their wishes, that’s a lot of people who are going to naturally use both sites. However, if the iOptOut error continues to cause the wrong choices to be recorded for enough accounts (and send out notices to all the exceptional groups involved to that effect), that would be a pretty significant problem, don’t you think??!
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
The site didn’t crash. Administrators blocked the site intermittently over the first day make adjustments to allow the increadibly high traffic. 1,000,000 people registered on the first day.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
(that was for the NDNCL)