From: Mike N. 

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:24:39 +0200, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>> >I was just about to ask if anyone has gotten a confirmation e-mail. I
signed
>> >up 12 hours ago and have not received one yet.
>
>> I got mine within five minutes.
>
>I heard so many people signed up that some ISPs saw a flood of emails
>arriving to their customers from a single domain and their spam filters
>triggered for that domain.


   From what I can tell, they had  normal startup problems and at least one
hardware
failure that caused their reverse DNS to stop working.   The effect was that
the initial
crush of signups created a delay.   Then, as news of the delay leaked out more
people went
to look and test the system (including me) which exaggerated the problem. That was
added to people who didn't get a signup confirmation so they re-requested
registration.

   Since then, the initial hubhub has died down and they've added additional
servers to
support the load.   There will not likely be any  problems with the do not call
list  in
the future.

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