On 8/18/2011 4:38 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 08/18/11 12:56 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> BUT, if Steve changes his IP to circumvent the block, then his new IP
>> should be blocked as well.
>
> how would you know this?

If he is using pop, imap, authenticated smtp, web services with a logged 
in session, ssh, etc., the applications know the user and may be logging 
it.  But there is nothing central or standard to collate this 
information, and there are various circumstances that will cause many 
users to have the same IP source or one user to have several.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikes...@gmail.com

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