I have a problem with donotcall.gov.  I kept trying to register, and
each time it was denied. I kept trying, and finally when I got through
they advised that Ihad exceeded my limit of telephone numbers. 
Actually I have none.  I am trying to rectify this,as I am elderly and
have gotten calls at 4:00Am and this is important to me.

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Request for Question Clarification by wonko-ga on 02 Jul 2003 18:17 PDT

Probably, the web site has set cookies tracking your visits which are
being counted even though you didn't actually manage to get your phone
number listed.  Try clearing out your browser cache by clicking on
Tools-Internet Options in the Internet Explorer menu bar and then
clicking on the Delete Cookies and Delete Files buttons that will
appear in the window.  Then click OK to close the window, and try
visiting the web site again.  Hopefully this will solve your problem. 
Please let me know so that I can claim credit for the answer if it
does.

Thanks!

Wonko

You can call the phone number provided on the site for the same result
which may be easier for you. The line is open to you now if you live
west of the Mississippi, next week if you live east. Don't worry - the
first list compilation will be open for over another month so you have
a while to do this.

I've heard they was an more traffic than they could handle and their
servers were crashing.  I read they had more than 10 million
registrations during the first four days.  Anyway, I tried it the
other day and it worked for me.  You might want to try again.

PS Its about time. =)

This isn't an answer to your specific question of accessing a website,
but I was listening to our local radio station the other day (in
Australia) and they mentioned a couple of strategies to *discourage*
telemarketers. One is simply and consistently interrupt the caller to
ask, "is this telemarketing?" and when they reply that it is
(telemarketing/survey/business opportunity -- they're all the same)
just say in the sweetest, friendliest way, "I'm sorry, I don't *do*
telemarketing. Goodbye." I have actually used this approach this with
every single telemarketing call for the last couple of years, and
guess what? I hardly ever get calls anymore. The other approach that I
thought was a bit on the mean side (but oh so tempting at times) was
to interrupt the telemarketer mid-spiel and ask them politely to hold
the line because you have to do something. Then you go on with
whatever you were doing and leave them hanging on the phone. Chances
are that after a few, fruitless minutes of hanging on, they'll give up
and leave you alone. But remember, if you ever 'cooperate' with any
telemarketer, or enter any company's competitions or answer any
surveys, etc, you'll be back on some telemarketing database somewhere
in the world and you'll have the problem all over again.