[Asterisk-Users] more dids added to goiax.com

[John Novack (port)]

Matthew Simpson wrote:

> To address the issue about the Firefox browser, I develop [if you want 
> to call it that, lol] the sites on Opera so it should work fine in 
> Firefox.  Nothing fancy at all just HTML 4.0 forms, etc.  The other 
> poster hit the nail on the head, it was out of DIDs. I just loaded 
> another 200 random dids in so we'll see how long those last.
>
> I'm going to add code to confirm the email addresses that people 
> signed up for to avoid "DID hogging" and also going to reclaim DIDs 
> that go totally unused for more than probably a 30 day period to keep 
> DIDs from going stale and unused.
>
> And about the free outgoing, I don't want people to jump through hoops 
> at all.  That's not what this was supposed to be about.  I don't want 
> people to have to use something like Paypal either, that's irritating 
> and a lot of people used the service from out of the country [like 
> some US Marines calling home from Iraq] that couldn't use paypal anyway.
>
> I do like the Web of Trust idea.  Maybe I'll do it google style and 
> give out some invites to people [say 5] and then those 5 people will 
> get a couple invites, and so on.  Each invite would point back to the 
> person who gave it so if I trust Bob and he trusts Sam who trusts Sue 
> but Sue turns out to be an abuser, I can see that Sam give it to Sue 
> and revoke Sue's account and make her "untrustworthy" to the system 
> [blacklisted].  If Sam invites several people that all end up black 
> listing, than Sam's ability to get invites will get removed [but he 
> would not get blacklisted since he is not abusing, just passing out 
> invites to abusers].  This would have to all be done by machine to 
> scale ... not sure I have the time to put the code together but if it 
> worked it might be useful for other free services out there.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> yours,
> matthew
> _______________________________________________

I made two attempts this morning to send some comments off list, and 
both got returned due to some sort of spam filter, so would hope that 
any future controls will not suffer from that inability to communicate.

Those of us who have signed up early, and not abused your generosity 
perhaps ought to be on the top of the invite list?
Can GOIAX be configured to show the assigned DID and registered name, 
rather than the present 202-556-0000 that shows up when outbound calls 
could be made?
A limit on number of calls per minute,hour,day,week or month might be a 
place to start
Low DID usage and reassignment might discourage use. If one gives out a 
DID and it is then moved xx days later for low usage, then who will even 
publish it?
Perhaps expand the registration process to include name, address and 
another phone number?
If your business plan is to evolve into a pay service of some sort, you 
will want that information anyway
Don't make everyones life too complicated simply to discourage a ( 
hopefully ) small number of abusers.
The service worked great, though call setup time did increase the last 
several days, probably due to the rising abuse

John Novack