Changes To National “Do Not Call” Register
By Stephen Spry : Filed under Your News
I just received an email from the (Australian) Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy regarding a discussion paper they have just released regarding the “eligibility requirements for registration on the Do Not Call Register”
According to the email…
As a valued stakeholder, the Department would appreciate your views on this issue.
But me being the sceptical person I am, I was wondering why the government thought I was a valued stakeholder… so I investigated the email address this email was sent to. Lo and behold - it was NOT one of my primary addresses - rather it was an address that I use on one of my web sites, and NEVER use to subscribe to anything.
In other words, this “communication” from “The Manager, Spam and Do Not Call Register Section, Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy” is a direct result of some robot harvesting my email address from a web site - a practice that is certainly very questionable at the best of times.
Interesting that the Australian Government is able to use this sort of technique in a country which has some of the toughest anti-spam legislation in the country!
Irony aside…
This important discussion paper is about whether small businesses should be allowed to list their phone and fax numbers on the national “do not call” register, which is currently limited to private and domestic numbers only.
If you are interested in lodging a submission, then you best go here and do it before September 12 2008.
Stephen, sounds like a clever spammer disguising themselves as the Australian Government, but I guess you looked into that?
The link was legitimate enough Joel… I was just questioning the technique they used to harvest my email address, which went against all published best practices of email marketing! But then the government is exempt from its own spam legislation.