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Only problem is, it only stops Australian Telemarketers. It cannot be enforced for call centres in India and the likes, so It just means more calls from people with less than perfect English as the call centres will move off shore.

Greetings, friend. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you have the power in you right now. So use it. And send one dollar to "Happy Dude," 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away!

Greetings, friend. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you have the power in you right now. So use it. And send one dollar to "Happy Dude," 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away!

postcode ??

hehe

"Hello, this is Homer Simpson aka Happy Dude! The court has ordered me to call every person in town to apologize for my telemarketing scam. I'm sorry. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to : Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power!

'Sorry Dude'

Only problem is, it only stops Australian Telemarketers. It cannot be enforced for call centres in India and the likes, so It just means more calls from people with less than perfect English as the call centres will move off shore.
If they represent an Australian company, they can be stopped (the company they are representing will be nailed, if needs be)

Thought ppl might interested in this. This was posted in The Age.

Kelly Burke

May 3, 2007 - 2:16PM

The Federal Government website boasts it's free, quick and easy.

But day one of operation for Senator Helen Coonan's Do Not Call register has been fraught with technical glitches, as tens of thousands of people rush to list their phone numbers on the new site.

After numerous attempts to register failed, smh.com.au contacted Senator Coonan's office only to be told by a spokeswoman: "We're very happy with it so far."

She referred queries to the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

"There's some technical issues, we're working through them with the provider now," said the authority's media manager, Donald Robertson. "We'll be putting out a statement shortly."

According to Service Stream Solutions - the Melbourne-based company which won the government contract to set up and run the register - the site is designed to handle 700,000 registrations an hour.

But by midday, with about 50,000 registrations completed, the system appeared to freeze.

A spokesman from the company denied there were any problems with the site, other than being a little slow due to the high level of traffic.

He had managed to register his own number earlier in the day in less than 20 seconds, he said.

When theage.com.au tried to log onto the site not long ago, an error message appeared in place of the home page.

"The Do Not Call Register is currently experiencing very high demand, thank you for your patience," it explained after several attempts at logging on.

After continual clicking, the website eventually appeared, only to crash again as we attempted to sign the online version of the Do Not Call Register.

Once the technical glitches have been ironed out, consumers who have registered can look forward to totally telemarketer-free homes from May 31. Almost.

Under the government's legislation, politicians, pollsters and not-for-profit organisations such as religious, educational and charitable institutions will still be permitted to cold-call those on the register.

Senator Coonan said the exemptions were "an appropriate compromise", given that the aim of the legislation was to protect consumers from companies "flogging you things you don't want".

Telemarketers who breach the legislation may be fined up to $1 million for repeated offences, and the penalties will apply equally to offshore call centres.

Senator Coonan said she noted with some irony that India had recently established a similar register.

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