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Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened and Yahoo isn't blocking it
From: johnl () iecc com (John R. Levine)
Date: 28 Jun 2003 01:06:07 -0400
"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 hasn't a clue what he's talking about. I checked with a friend who's a tech manager at Yahoo, and when I gave him the IP range that donotcall is using (I registered at 1 AM when it was fast and got most of my mail right away), he checked and found that in fact Yahoo hadn't blocked anything and at worst had filed some of them in the Bulk folder, since they're certainly bulky. Other people have reported delays of up to 11 hours getting their confirmation mail, so it's clear that a few people have misinterpreted slow mail as blocked mail. The donotcall.gov project certainly does seem to have been a learning experience. Next time there's a project like this that's going to have a big first day spike it'd make sense to do load shedding and divert peak traffic to a server that says "sorry, we're overloaded, please come back tomorrow and don't panic because you have until the end of July to sign up and be on the first release of the list." That and fix the rDNS and price out some alternatives to Redmond Bloatware, of course. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 330 5711 johnl () iecc com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
Current thread:
- RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened, (continued)
- RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Michael Hallgren (Jun 27)
- RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Sameer R. Manek (Jun 27)
- RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Gary E. Miller (Jun 27)
- RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Michael Hallgren (Jun 27)
- RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Charles Sprickman (Jun 27)
- RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Nick Nelson (Jun 27)
- Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Roland Perry (Jun 27)
- Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Mans Nilsson (Jun 28)
- Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Stephen Sprunk (Jun 27)
- Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened and Yahoo isn't blocking it John R. Levine (Jun 27)
- Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened and Yahoo isn't blocking it chuck goolsbee (Jun 27)
- RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened William Devine, II (Jun 27)
- RE: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Christopher J. Wolff (Jun 27)
- Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Leo Bicknell (Jun 27)
- Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Joe Abley (Jun 30)