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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