Hi. I have given some tought to your project over the past months and I never liked that self-registration idea. It seems like you are trying to provide the technology and the retailing environment and are not doing either one particularly well. I think you would have a good and usefull product if it worked, but I remember from experience that installation was very cumbersome. Production environments (ISPs and ASPs) only use products that provide snappy flawless installation and equally snappy archiving and restoration.
The correct way of doing what you do is to remove the self-registration features altogether and provide some simple provisioning scripts to manipulate the database. Once you have that, package it properly with installation scripts, provisioning script documentation and take it to ISPs and ASPs and have them integrate it into their service networks as they see fit. Usually ISPs and ASPs already have the end-user interfaces and they want to expand it by adding more products and services to it. Since 99% of the value in what you do is in the DynIP service everything else is just distraction. Kind of like having a kiosk on the street for selling light bulbs. You make light-bulbs. Package it the way other light bulb companies package their products and put them where the other light bulbs are so that people can buy it and you can receive the product. When you have that, promote is as hard as you can to generate sales and recover expenses so that you can move on to developing the next technology or refining what you have "profitably". You will have a lot more success with your product that way. Creighton MacDonnell wrote: > Last night it appears that my installation of GnuDIP was used to send a > large number of E-mails to a victim. > > While those GnuDIP web pages that can only be entered through the login > page cannot be anonymously abused. it is now clear that the self > registration page can be. A program can "GET" and "POST" that page > repeatedly to send an E-mail bombardment to a third party. The > bombardment will seem to come from the GnuDIP site. > > I have disabled self registration on my site. > > I will try to find a way to make sure that a human being is using the > page. Suggestions are welcome. > > Sorry about this. > > -- > Creighton MacDonnell > http://macdonnell.ca/ > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > -- > GnuDIP Mailing List > http://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/gnudip-www/#mailinglist _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm -- GnuDIP Mailing List http://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/gnudip-www/#mailinglist
