[Asterisk-Users] free dids on goiax.com

[Kevin Scott]

That really is a shame, goiax.com has been the best free termination service
I have seen.  The call quality was excellent, better then some paid services
I have used.

One idea, I'm not sure if you already did it, only allow one concurrent call
per account?

And now DIDs, thanks from all of us for the great service.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Simpson [mailto:matthew at txlink.net] 
Sent: October 18, 2005 2:05 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] free dids on goiax.com

GoIAX, the Asterisk community's free IAX provider, is offering free US 
dids now.  I loaded about 175 dids in and put up a very beta sign in page.

Unfortunately I had to restrict the free us/canada outbound calling back 
down to toll-free only.  There was a lot of war dialing and prank 
calling going on.  I'm working on some stuff to hopefully curb that kind 
of stuff down so I can unrestrict outdial again, but this is the problem 
with free.. there is always someone that will abuse it.

If anybody has any ideas on how to keep the abuse down let me know.  The 
best ideas I have now is to only allow a certain amount of calling per 
month, add velocity checking, and somehow put some accountability into 
the sign up process to keep the prank callers and multiple account 
abusers away.

yours,
Matthew Simpson
GoIAX -- www.goiax.com
TxLink -- www.txlink.net