[Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

Andy Dorman adorman at ironicdesign.com
Thu Mar 12 13:24:18 GMT 2009


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 IPs in Europe.

The only rationale I can offer at this time is that we have seen no good sign 
ups from these two countries.  And between the ones that signed up, they managed 
to get us blocked by Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo mail within a few hours.

Ultimately we plan to have other measures in place to stop abuse and not need 
location restrictions on signup or usage.  We really want to provide service to 
anyone that wants to use it.

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Andy Dorman
Ironic Design, Inc.
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