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Originally Posted by Carl.
I don't know whether this will be considered a legitimate use of SipBroker or not but this evening there have been numerous people using the SipBroker access numbers to access the SipPhone conference system and use it as a "free" chatroom service.
Whether or not this is a legitimate use or not I am not entirely sure like I said, but I would guess that they're tying up an awful lot of lines which people use genuinely for chatting to those of us who are primarily SiP based, to do nothing other than scream abuse at each other and anybody they come across in the conference systems they are aware of as I and a few friends found out this evening.
We were eventually able to hold a discussion after hurriedly emailing a conference room on another system between ourselves.
Is this a legitimate use or is this the kind of thing that should be reported?
The rooms are accessable via SipBroker prefix *7471222 for reference.
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Well, the Conference Room service from Gizmo has been there for a relatively long while, my only worry is if for some reason it got more popular, especially accessing it via SipBroker
It is definitely good to keep updated on how SipBroker is being used and how it may impact us, the basic SIP users in general, but it seems to me this is one of those iffy situations where you risk banning legitimate use along with abusers
The only thing I can think of is to limit continuous call length to something like 45 minutes - 1 hour to try deterring some of these possible abuse cases....
All in all though, these are just thoughts, I am not sure whether the Gizmo Chat Rooms have a large enough impact on the system overall to cause concern, Craig and Martin can probably convey a better idea if this is cause for concern...