to the person skilled in the art and are considered equivalent blocking access to an illegitimate user will prevent the user from illegally accessing the network as desired however if the new user is a legitimate user that user will takes steps to remedy the situation with the isp which may uncover other illegitimate users of the subscriber account in one embodiment the consolidation and management device 26 may periodically execute a count query on the user association database 24 whenever a count of users associated with a subscriber account exceeds an allowed threshold a notification may be sent to an authorized user of the subscriber account indicating the count status and suggesting remedies to fix the problem a message may be sent through any suitable medium such as by an e mail to an e mail address registered with the subscriber account in an alternative embodiment a web browser message may be sent to a user of a subscriber account using the techniques described in the applicant 39 s earlier applications referenced above for example with reference to fig4 when a user association count exceeds an allowed threshold a flag may be set in a policy database 38 that identifies the subscriber account as requiring notification of the count when the redirection device 21 receives a web page request the redirection device 21 processes the request.