[Zach]

Ya know I have often though about this, and I think the most effective way to actually ban someone is to as follows.

1) Get the most complete sniffer you can find. Get every ounce of info on the problem before banning. That way when you do the IP ban and they proxy in, you can have it set up to alert you that someone new is on the forums that just happens to match all these different criterias that you have learned.

2) Put a redirect in on the user based on username/userid - if they do not know they can kill cookies than you got em righ there.

3) Of course monitor password strings compared to their password string.

4) If you know their instant messenger names, put something in logging their sign ins and off of that, as it gives you something to compare to other activities that match.

5) Try to third party cookie them.

6) Give up if they know anything and do not want to be banned.