Finally – the Do Not Call register opened in Australia today and takes effect at the end of the month.
According to News.com.au:
Demand to register for the donotcall.gov.au website was so great today that it crashed after receiving more than 50,000 applications.
You have to ask which monkeys were hired to build it if it fell over so easily.
It was those ColdFusion monkeys 🙂
woo hoo .. it’s 11.20 at night & I managed to complete .. 12 hours ago the site wouldn’t even load.
It is a joke to launch a site like this without the resources to support it .. hope they learn from their mistakes when they bring in internet voting for elections.
Isn’t this Do Not Call thingy the wrong way around? Surely the better idea would have been to have a “Please Call Me” register… It makes more sense to have an opt-in rather than an opt-out.
And I bet the website wouldn’t have collapsed under the weight of people registering their interest in being bugged by Indian telemarketers…
I was lucky enough to register at around 9:30am before the rush 🙂
Probably the same ones who will build the new australia.gov.au single sign-on service – what can I say, they know how to make easy money. Seriously, 42.4 million bucks to build a single sign-on system?
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21663706%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html