Re: [Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

2009-03-12 Thread Andy Dorman
Tomas Doran wrote: Otherwise those of us using mail clients with sane threading get the new thread in the middle of the old one. Sorry. My client threads by subject. I honestly did not realize any client out there used anything different (since most threads drift and the easiest way to

Re: [Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

2009-03-12 Thread Andy Dorman
Mesdaq, Ali wrote: I have used it pretty heavily in the past and been happy with it. I am not sure if the geo-location stuff in the way you want to use it will be successful however since I have not used it for those purposes. So the problem your experiencing is what exactly? Automated

Re: [Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

2009-03-12 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Andy Dorman ador...@ironicdesign.com The problem so far is manual sign ups for accounts that are then abused. And in analyzing what happened we have noticed that many of the abused accounts were signed up from one or two countries. We think that geoIP restrictions could cut our

Re: [Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

2009-03-12 Thread Andy Dorman
Octavian Rasnita wrote: This would also ban the good users, but those who want to continue abusing would be able to use an anonymous proxy from another country. True. That is a very good point. And some of the abusers apparently did just that through a couple of small Rackspace blocks of

Re: [Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

2009-03-12 Thread Edmund von der Burg
This is getting quite OT now but hey ho... 2009/3/12 Andy Dorman ador...@ironicdesign.com: Octavian Rasnita wrote: This would also ban the good users, but those who want to continue abusing would be able to use an anonymous proxy from another country. True. That is a very good point.  And

Re: [Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

2009-03-12 Thread Andy Dorman
Edmund von der Burg wrote: This is getting quite OT now but hey ho... It is indeed. No need to continue on list and bother everyone with this issue. But if anyone wants to discuss this topic, feel free to email me directly at ador...@ironicdesign.com and I will respond directly to any/all

Re: [Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

2009-03-11 Thread Tomas Doran
Andy Dorman wrote: We have several signup web sites using Catalyst. Recently we have realized we are going to have to limit signups by geographical region to help limit abuse. Captchas (we use and love reCaptcha) and other heuristics just do not seem to be sufficient. Please start new threads

Re: [Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

2009-03-10 Thread David Morel
Le 10 mars 09 à 15:08, Andy Dorman a écrit : We have several signup web sites using Catalyst. Recently we have realized we are going to have to limit signups by geographical region to help limit abuse. Captchas (we use and love reCaptcha) and other heuristics just do not seem to be

RE: [Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

2009-03-10 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
that get abused in other ways? -Original Message- From: Andy Dorman [mailto:ador...@ironicdesign.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:08 AM To: The elegant MVC web framework Subject: [Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules? We have several signup web sites using Catalyst. Recently we have