>On a more serious note, I used GeoIP when it was free and it was a godsend to reduce malicious connection attempts to my webserver without impacting 99 % of my

>On a more serious note, I used GeoIP when it was free and it was a godsend to reduce malicious connection attempts to my webserver without impacting 99 % of my "clients" (not paying customers). Yeah, I think the issue is that, if you have 30 paying customers with, lets say, a canadian ip address and a canadian credit card, and then one bloke connects from the UK by that ip address, its daft that you just blacklist the ip and take all those customers offline. Personally I would start with a polite notice to the ISP, as its likely someones running a proxy and they should theoretically be as interested to remove it as you are.