[Asterisk-Users] free dids on goiax.com

[John Cianfarani]

Why not just ask for a small one time payment $1 or something from a
credit card, or paypal, or something along those lines so you would have
someway to trace back to an abuser.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matthew
Simpson
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:05 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
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