Quote - a) R'osity gets its act together and manages to code a decent ban properly. Even then it could be bypassed, but at least it can put in an ip ban and not a nickname ban.

Nope. It simply cannot be done. I have DSL. With a dynamic address. How are you going to ban me? The last octet? Nope. Somebody else will have it as soon as I log off. And I will log off, cause you cannot stay connected 24/7 with DSL exactly because it allocates the address dynamically. The whole B class network, from the second octet down? Even worse. If everybody had a static address, it would be a different matter, but till then - zero. Your second solution would be much more effective, but since there wouldn't be a need for it if people didn't support idjits in the first place...

-- erlik