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    What it is
    The Ban, english word for prohibition of entry, is a useful tool available to administrators. It may, in fact, become necessary to forcedly remove an unwelcome user from their community.
    The ban can be made basing on two informations known about user: nickname and IP.

    Ban by nickname
    It blocks the access to the forum for the user account related to the specified nickname. If the user performs the log-out, he can access the forum as visitor.
    To do this type of ban it is necessary to go in the administrative tool Ban users. When you enter, the following box will appear:

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    Simply insert the nicknames you want and when you click on Save changes the usera will be banned.
    It is important not to leave spaces between a nick and the other.

    Ban by date
    You can allow all users to enter the forum, preventing only the recently registered users to write; just indicate the date you want.
    This function, along the ban by nickname, is useful to prevent that the banned users will register again to circumvent the ban.
    While the ban by date is activated, a banned user who register again may not write using the new account he has created.
    In addition to the activated ban by date, you can select the new users and choose who can write in the forum (inserting them in the special exclusion list).
    This is useful if there are frequent problems of spam.

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    Ban by IP
    To better understand how this type of ban is done, it is recommended to learn some knowledge on IP.

    To ban by IP shoul be taken the user's IP that you want to ban, to do it just copy the "numbers" that appear in the lower right of his post or in the tagboard.
    You can only see the IP of the users who have posted in your forum.

    Once got the IP, just put it, in the same administrative function, in the box:

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    Once clicked on Save changes, users whose IP address corresponds to the inserted ones, will be banned.

    Warning: using ban by IP there is the risk to block also other users who are using the same provider of the banned ones. It is recommended to remove the old banned IP and to leave only the IP that you want to block at the moment.

    Ban by proxy
    Many 'banned by IP' users are using a proxy. What is a proxy?
    Using a proxy, their new IP is different from that which is assigned by the providerand so also from that which is banned. To ban also the proxy, just insert "*p*" (without quotation marks) in the box to ban by IP.

    Warning: banning proxy, you can leave out many users who connect from office.

    So it is possible, by the last box, to insert a list of nicknames and/or groups excluded from the ban by IP but also from the ban by date:

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    Method to limit the spam
    To limit the spam's problem coming from the foreign countries it is possible to use this method:
    • activate the ban by data

    • create an open group called for example "Enabled users" (to create an open group it is necessary to select the flag "Self inscriptions")

    • put the group ID in the exclusione list from ban by date/IP (i.e. if the group is the number 5 just insert number 5 in that list)

    • provide informations to new users so that they know that to write in the forum they must subscribe to the group "Enabled users" (they can do it by themselves)
    In this way the foreign users who register only 'to spam' will not be able to writeand they will not understand that they have to join to the group to do it.
    Italian users, really interested in the forum, will understand it instead.
    If you want to avoid the use of the open group the administrator could manually insert the new users' nicknames who can write in the forum.
    But in this way the new user will have to wait for the administrator permission to write in the forum.

    Rules of ForumFree about Ban
    5.1 If a user is banned from the forum he can't register again using another nickname; on this forum are not banned nicknames but the people, for obvious reasons. If a banned user registers again to the forum and he is discovered by moderators or administrators, again he will be banned.
    5.2 If this user still registers , with the only purpose to contest and obstruct the regular carryingout of the formum del forum will proceed with the compliant to the competent authorities.

    Every Administrator in his forum, can ban whoever without notice and explanations.

    Ban from the circuit
    Users who have committed serious violations to Forumfree's rules, are banned from the circuit. In this way the user can not access to any forum.
    The ban from the circuit generally lapses with the automatic cancellation of the specified account. Only after the cancellation, the user can register a new one.