[Asterisk-Users] free dids on goiax.com

[tim panton]

On 18 Oct 2005, at 08:05, Matthew Simpson wrote:

> 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.
>

Fantastic, got one, thanks.

> 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.
>

That's a shame, it is a great service but, as you say, inevitable  
that some would take advantage.

> 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.

You could restrict it to folks with DIDs and make sure their DID goes  
out on outbound calls,
giving the victims of pranks a place to complain.
You could also change the signup so that we have to provide a pots  
number as a contact point.

Otherwise I'd be happy to be limited to (say) 100 different numbers I  
can call, that would limit
the wardialers at least.


Keep up the good work.

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