[Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

Octavian Rasnita orasnita at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 13:01:08 GMT 2009


From: "Andy Dorman" <adorman at 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 abused account sign ups in half at least.

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.

Octavian




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