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You may recall that back in 2003, the government enacted a program that enables consumers to avoid calls from telemarketers by signing up on a registration list. Well, that registration of yours, assuming you signed up the moment the list went live, was set to expire in 5 years and lo-and-behold, 5 years is coming up.
This of course means that people like myself, need to re-register for fear of getting those lousy phone calls during dinner again about "low interest credit cards" and "refinancing my mortgage". So consider this your friendly reminder to do so. You may register up to 3 phones under your name at a time, (multiple registrations are possible for those with more numbers) including cell phones, home phones, and other phone numbers you have.
Wait. What does this have to do with Microsoft? Well, what you probably didn’t know is that we helped the develop this site using Microsoft technology. That’s right: "Do Not Call" is a Microsoft .NET application.
DRIVEN BY .NET
So what? It’s a just a registration site. True. But there’s still some programmatic logic behind it and it definitely, DEFINITELY scales. It was completely hammered by Americans all over the nation at that time as you can imagine which is saying something. They turned on the web site at 12 midnight on day one and they got a 1000 new registrants every second. They had over 2 million people registered by midnight that day and they were only supposed to have it turned on for "half" of America’s area codes to control registration but they made it available to everyone day one.
- LINK: https://www.donotcall.gov/
(Or call (888) 382-1222)
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