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<DIV>I have been using goiax for my outgoing and has been excellent in quality
of<BR>voice and also the service.<BR><BR>To put the abusers out, I propose that
each account holder should<BR>pre-register the phone numbers they typically
call. For a legitimate user,<BR>pre-registration is certainly acceptable
(especially for a free service),<BR>and if we give option of uploading an
outlook address book or so, that would<BR>even simplify the process.
Pre-registration of outgoing calls will make<BR>abusers' job lot harder and it
is lot easier for hunting down the abusers as<BR>well. If you want, you can set
a maximum pre-registration limit as well.<BR><BR>To avoid multiple account
holders, i would take an approach of comparing IP<BR>addresses at the time of
registration itself. Suppose, if I want to create<BR>100 accounts for 100 email
accounts, i will have to go to goiax.com and<BR>register each and everyone of
them; then collect the IP address of the<BR>request and check against the
existing accounts; you can set a maximum cap<BR>on the number of accounts that
could be registered from an IP (to allow<BR>roommates). If you set a max-cap to
be 4, we can have all 4 roommates have<BR>their own accounts with each having
pre-registered phone numbers. You can<BR>use similar tactic to restrict the
service users as well at the time of<BR>allowing the outgoing call.<BR><BR>..
just my thoughts to get the great service
going.<BR><BR>regards,<BR>Rajesh<BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From:
"Matthew Simpson" <<A
href="mailto:matthew@txlink.net">matthew@txlink.net</A>><BR>To: <<A
href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</A>><BR>Sent:
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 2:05 AM<BR>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] free dids on
goiax.com<BR><BR><BR>> GoIAX, the Asterisk community's free IAX provider, is
offering free US<BR>> dids now. I loaded about 175 dids in and put up a
very beta sign in page.<BR>><BR>> Unfortunately I had to restrict the free
us/canada outbound calling back<BR>> down to toll-free only. There was
a lot of war dialing and prank<BR>> calling going on. I'm working on
some stuff to hopefully curb that kind<BR>> of stuff down so I can unrestrict
outdial again, but this is the problem<BR>> with free.. there is always
someone that will abuse it.<BR>><BR>> If anybody has any ideas on how to
keep the abuse down let me know. The<BR>> best ideas I have now is to
only allow a certain amount of calling per<BR>> month, add velocity checking,
and somehow put some accountability into<BR>> the sign up process to keep the
prank callers and multiple account<BR>> abusers away.<BR>><BR>>
yours,<BR>> Matthew Simpson<BR>> GoIAX -- <A
href="http://www.goiax.com">www.goiax.com</A><BR>> TxLink -- <A
href="http://www.txlink.net">www.txlink.net</A><BR>>
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