Although I signed up on California’s Do Not Call registry back in March, the info didn’t make it to the now-active national list as was supposed to happen.  It’s possible that it just wasn’t submitted yet but, rather than risk it, signing up at the actual national Web site seems like a better idea.

It now says that my registration will be effective until 7/1/2008.

On a similar note, consumers who used Yahoo Mail e-mail accounts to register for the service were met with an ironic twist Friday — Yahoo’s spam filter intercepted confirmation messages sent from FTC servers.  The service doesn’t finish registering you unless you respond to the e-mail within 72 hours. 

This is an example of why I turn off both Yahoo and Hotmail’s anti-spam filters.  Of course, that also explains the 57 spams I received on Hotmail since yesterday morning.  I don’t get any spam on my main email address that goes only to friends and is never used to sign up for anything on a website.

By the way, what is the correct spelling on that last word, or is it words?  According to Dictionary.com:

Usage Note: The transition from World Wide Web site to Web site to website seems to have progressed as rapidly as the technology itself. The development of website as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the development of other technological expressions which have tended to evolve into unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email has recently been gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail, especially in texts that are more technologically oriented. Similarly, there has been an increasing preference for closed forms like homepage, online, and printout.

Case closed.