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Originally Posted by lolthrash
I don't actually know how true this is regarding external IP?
Several forums I am a member of regularly enact bans of the IP address of a user, which prevents them from coming back at all (except via a proxy server, but you could always ban a massive list of proxy servers too if you liked).
Seems quite effective, was also quite effective for me when I ran a forum for a while.
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Most people have a dynamic IP assigned by their ISP upon connection. That changes everytime they connect or power their modem. You can't effectively black list anything based on an IP address for that reason. If it was the case my life would have been much easier the past 10yrs or so with controlling spam at servers level. That's why I use DNSBL for large blocks but that's still hit and miss and a relatively gray area.