Hi everybody,
I've got a person who just won't give up. He's the only person I've ever had to ban, and actually he's the reason I started requiring registration, etc, about a year ago. Until then, the board has run fine, even with the usual arguments and occasional flames. But this guy apparently has nothing better to do than think of new ways to get in.
When he uses his regular IP, fine, I can spot it a mile away because luckily, he's the only person using that particular ISP. Then he signed up a series of new names using an ISP in another state, and those got through because it was a new trick. (I was only watching the registration log for his IP, and didn't notice the pattern until it was too late). I don't know if he got a friend up north to do it, or was on vacation and went to a cyber cafe. Anyway, I quickly blocked those new logins.
Then started the AOL, which was expected. At first I thought he'd gotten himself a trial account, but now I think he's got a friend helping him. For the last several months, he would register using an AOL account, and then quickly change over to his ISP to start posting. I was able to spot that quickly and shut him down.
However, now, he must have figured out that he shouldn't use his ISP to post, and he's just using AOL. I have no clue whether he's gone and gotten himself an account, is visiting a friend with AOL, or is having the friend do the posting for him. But he's back once again, and still playing these games.
Since it's AOL, it's obviously problematic because the IP addresses change all the time.
My problem is that I can't just ban all people who show up from AOL. And since AOL allows seven screen names, it's easy to delete on and make a new one, so it's an ongoing thing.
I've read through other posts here, and didn't find any solutions. I'm wondering if anyone might have any ideas. This poster knows he is banned forever, and it's become a real obsession for him. In the meantime, it wastes a lot of my time, and I wish I didn't have to spend so much time monitoring recent visitors and all of that.
Does anyone have any ideas or solutions that I could try? I'm frustrated by all of this, and tired of constantly having to be on guard.
Thanks in advance,
Ang
