evileeyore
Mrrrph
On my old broadband service I had a fluid IP address. They'd drop your address and reassigned it to others on the node as needed. So while a site could havebanned a specific address for me, in a day or so I'd have new on. Granted at a moment's notice (every day at midnight) I could be reassigned the "banned" one...A long time. Permabans are tied to ip address.
The only way to get a permanent IP address from them back then was to spend extra monies and get a business account.