CIPC still working in the 1990's

Foxhound5366

Foxhound5366

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Seeing as this is the business section, y'all are probably aware that the CIPC is the body that registers all businesses in South Africa.

Which is why getting this sort of 'advice' from them by e-mail is odd:

Kindly email the application as a single attachment not as 2 separate attachments. Kind ensure that all attachments are either in PDF or TIFF. No other formats are accepted and these non-acceptable formats include Word, PJEG, Excel, Zipped files and other e-mails.
Also ensure that the entire application is submitted in a single e-mail. Our automated systems cannot merge multiple e-mails to form one application for processing. If size is a concern, kindly reduce the size by either:-
1. Scanning the documents in 150 DPI black and white PDF; or
2. Scanning in TIFF.
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This e-mail raises so many questions.

Do you know what you do if your "automated" e-mail system can't handle more than one attachment at a time? You change e-mail systems.

Ditto for if it is limited to the types of format it needs for attachments, or even if it can't assign multiple e-mails originating from the same e-mail address to the same thread.

We're living in a world where cloud-computing and 4K resolution is the norm, and you are trying to encourage me to print out the documents I want to send you and re-scan them as a 150DPI black and white PDF????

And yes, the pedant in me can't help noticing they actually wrote "PJEG" as an unacceptable file type, god help us all. In fact, it reminds me of the joke "I drive a BMW because I can't spell Ferrari", but it's not funny.

So comforting to know that it's THESE guys with their super-modern systems who've been tasked with registering all South African businesses, amirite?

/rant
 
The worst part is that NONE of the CIPC websites are protected by SSL. It's pathetic.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
I've read before that the most secure systems are the oldest ones which modern viruses don't even know how to attack, in which case that entire website is military-spec.
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They're so military spec I can't even register a business as it strips out special chars that home affairs has for my surname.
They should honestly put their website on a box and lock the box in a room with only the power cable attached - because that's exactly how useful they are to me.
 
Good to know it's not just me then. Which makes you wonder, why is South African business tolerating having their lives made a nightmare by CIPC? You'd think Big Business has powerful lobbies with the right people, and even those people can't possibly look at CIPC's systems and processes and think "Yup, this looks modern."
 
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