[Asterisk-Users] free dids on goiax.com

[Rajesh kumar]

I have been using goiax for my outgoing and has been excellent in quality of
voice and also the service.

To put the abusers out, I propose that each account holder should
pre-register the phone numbers they typically call. For a legitimate user,
pre-registration is certainly acceptable (especially for a free service),
and if we give option of uploading an outlook address book or so, that would
even simplify the process. Pre-registration of outgoing calls will make
abusers' job lot harder and it is lot easier for hunting down the abusers as
well. If you want, you can set a maximum pre-registration limit as well.

To avoid multiple account holders, i would take an approach of comparing IP
addresses at the time of registration itself. Suppose, if I want to create
100 accounts for 100 email accounts, i will have to go to goiax.com and
register each and everyone of them; then collect the IP address of the
request and check against the existing accounts; you can set a maximum cap
on the number of accounts that could be registered from an IP (to allow
roommates). If you set a max-cap to be 4, we can have all 4 roommates have
their own accounts with each having pre-registered phone numbers. You can
use similar tactic to restrict the service users as well at the time of
allowing the outgoing call.

. just my thoughts to get the great service going.

regards,
Rajesh
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Simpson" <matthew at txlink.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 2:05 AM
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
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