I had a few failed disks hanging around that I needed to get RMA's for. So I decided to experiment and use the online RMA feautre on the NOW page:
http://now.netapp.com/products/rma/rma.shtml
Within 5 minutes of submitting 2 RMA's I had an email with the RMA number in my box.
I'd call the experiment a great success! :-)
Very impressive.
Graham