help with bans

[vertex]

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.

[Zzed]

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.