more on National Do Not Call Registry has opened

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: johnl () iecc com (John R. Levine)
Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA
Newsgroups: iecc.lists.ip
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:18:33 +0000
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] National Do Not Call Registry has opened

> "The irony of it is that the confirmation e-mail is being blocked by
> Yahoo, and therefore you will not receive the confirmation mail,"
> said Eric Greenberg, chief technology officer of NetFrameworks ...

 ... who, it turns out, has no idea what he's talking about.

I checked with a friend who's a technical manager at Yahoo, and he
tells me that once I gave him the IP range that the confirmation mail
was coming from (which I knew because I registered at 1 AM and got my
mail a minute or two later), he looked through their logs and verified
that Yahoo didn't bounce any of it.  Some of it might have been filed
in people's bulk mail folders, which isn't too surprising since there
sure is a lot of it.  Even though AT&T made some real newbie mail
errors like having no rDNS on the sending hosts, Yahoo's spam filters
didn't block them.

At 1 AM the site was nice and snappy, but by the time people came to
work this morning, it was grossly overloaded, and people report that
it was taking as long as 11 hours after they signed up on the web site
for the mail to arrive.  It's just underpowered and overloaded.  They
expected a lot of interest, but they evidently either didn't expect
millions of people to sign up on the first day. or weren't able to
build a system that could handle that load.  The FTC's web site
reports 735,000 confirmed registrations at 5 PM, and in view of the
trouble they had sending out the mail, there's probably at least that
many in the queue.

The message here, I suppose, is that when the Direct Marketing
Association tells us that people enjoy receiving phone calls to
sell them garb, um, goods and services, the DMA is mistaken.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer
Commissioner
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.


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