I have some members on a big board which really want us to go down, I am trying to avoid that and one way is to ban them, correct? I looked at the IPS and saw the 3 members have multiple ips, since they have 56K connection, so i banned emails. Those guys are pretty smart and know that release/renew in winipcfg will do the trick and keep coming back with new identities. I would allow email verification but dont want to go to that, i need a way to ban a Machine ID or a way to do a perm ban, please help this is urgent.

Banning Email domains works only with new registrations and not existing ones.

You can collect all their IP addresses and try to ban their IP class.

for Example: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is made up of 4 octets. To ban a unique IP you can specify aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.

Not that the class C IP is aaa.bbb.ccc can have 256 various IP's under it. So you can try and ban their class C IP's.

To take this one step further, you can also ban a class B IP (aaa.bbb). This will ban 65536 IP's that fall under that IP class.

Also note that if you do this on a AOL dialup IP class, you will ban any user who is on AOL.

You can ban their user ID, but they can sign up under a new name and new Email.

There is no definitive answer to banning.