>>>Are you saying that a banned person can now login and read messages but cannot post messages?
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>>What I wrote didn't mention anything at all about that.
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>>A ban procedure cannot be in effect for as long as someone doesn't do a login. Once a person does a login, then, additional verifications could be applied, in this case a ban detection. In our case, the user cannot proceed after that.
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>FWIW that sounds like a very good way to handle it, rather than just turn of a user/name password. First verify who is trying to log on and then process their status in the app ( just as you would process security)
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>Good idea.


Bans you IP as well if I remember correctly (blush)